I wondered about this for a while; then the monkey and I went to sleep, leaving the macaw alone conscious in the moonlight, watching through the night with his great round, yellow orbs, and thinking the thoughts that macaws always think in the moonlight.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe
This cover was necessary, else the macaws, which are shy birds, might have uttered one of their wild, choral screams, and flown off.
"Popular Adventure Tales"
Mayne Reid
However this might be, they soon after saw something sticking in the side of one of the macaws, and could see the bird pecking at it with its great beak, and trying to pull it out.
"Popular Adventure Tales"
Mayne Reid