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== Hybrids == {{See also|Hybrid macaw}} Sometimes macaws are hybridized for the pet trade. Aviculturists have reported an over-abundance of female blue-and-yellow macaws in captivity, which differs from the general rule with captive macaws and other parrots, where the males are more abundant.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} This would explain why the blue and gold is the most commonly hybridised macaw, and why the hybridising trend took hold among macaws. Common macaw hybrids include the harlequin (''[[Blue-and-yellow macaw|Ara ararauna]]'' Γ ''[[Red-and-green macaw|Ara chloroptera]]''), miligold macaw (''[[Blue-and-yellow macaw|Ara ararauna]]'' Γ ''[[Military macaw|Ara militaris]]'')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://animal-world.com/encyclo/birds/macaws/Miligold.php |title=Miligold Macaw, Hybrid Cross between a Military Macaw and a Blue and Gold Macaw |publisher=Animal-world.com |access-date=2015-03-14}}</ref> and the [[Catalina macaw|Catalina]] (known as the rainbow in Australia, ''[[Blue-and-yellow macaw|Ara ararauna]]'' Γ ''[[Scarlet macaw|Ara macao]]''). In addition, unusual but apparently healthy intergeneric hybrids between the hyacinth macaw and several of the larger ''Ara'' macaws have also occasionally been seen in captivity.<ref>[http://animal-world.com/encyclo/birds/macaws/HybridMacaws.php Macaws, Hybrid Names], and pages on individual hybrids.</ref> Another, much rarer, occurrence of a second-generation hybrid (F2) is the [[miliquin macaw]] (harlequin and military macaws).<ref name="washpost">{{cite news |last1=Vargas |first1=Theresa |title=An unlikely parrot love story may have resulted in a new species |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/an-unlikely-parrot-love-story-may-have-resulted-in-a-new-species/2020/01/03/115bf68a-2e66-11ea-bcd4-24597950008f_story.html |newspaper=Washington Post |access-date=17 January 2023}}</ref>
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