Macaw

Macaw

Release	15 January 2008 (Update)
Summoning level	41
Duration (mins)	31
Points cost	5
Race	Bird
Abilities	Remote view Forager Increases the chance that a herb drop will be a more-valuable herb
Special moves	Herbcall
Combat level	Non-combat
Examine	Lovely plumage! During Remote View: It can see my house from here!
Combat stats Life points Max hit Non-combat Non-combat Attack Defence Ranged Magic Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Immune to poison Non-combat Attack style Non-combat

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The Macaw is a level 41 Summoning familiar. It is summoned by using a Macaw pouch, which will give you 0.8 Summoning experience. Apart from having remote view, which lets you see from its eyes when it flies into the air, it can also improve your herb drops, (especially useful when killing Chaos druids, Cave crawlers, Flesh Crawlers, Mighty banshees and Aberrant spectres). It also has a special move called Herbcall, which can be activated if you have a Herbcall scroll in your inventory. Herbcall has a chance of creating random herbs. Macaws also have a small chance of producing a random herb which you can withdraw from them. This happens rarely, so it is not recommended you use the Macaw pouch for this reason.

The Macaw is fairly popular amongst alchemists for its modest Summoning experience and as a passive herb gatherer (although a Magpie is better for passive profit, as it generates valuable items more often than the macaw).

A Macaw is one of two familiars that can be used during the quest Curse of Arrav (Required to complete the quest), to help the player get past the zombie guards.

Macaw pouch

Macaw pouch

	Shards	Cost/XP	Charm	Tertiary
	78 ( 1,950)	37.1 coins		Clean guam
	Create XP	Use XP	Low alch	Hi alch	GE price
	72.4	0.8	949	1,424	1,501 (info)
	GE Database	Cost to make	Bogrog shard return		Shard return level
	Look up price	2,689	55 (1,375)		48
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	Examine text
	I can summon a macaw familiar with this.

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A Macaw pouch is made by using a Summoning pouch on a Summoning obelisk with 78 spirit shards, a green charm and a Guam leaf in the inventory. Making the pouch earns 72.4 experience points. Using the pouch to summon a Macaw gains 0.8 experience points, and costs 3 Summoning points. It seems to also increase seed drops.

Giving a macaw pouch to a beacon keeper in the All Fired Up (minigame) will allow that one keeper to get information about every single beacon in the network, instead of only the two neighbouring them.

Herbcall scroll

The Macaw's Herbcall ability.

Herbcall scroll

	Create XP	Use XP	Special move points
	0.8	0.8	12
	Low Alch	High Alch	GE Price
	94	142	91 (info)
	GE Database	Bogrog shard return	Shard return level
	Look up price	4 (100)	48
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	Examine text
	A scroll for a macaw familiar.

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Herbcall

A Herbcall scroll enables the use of the Herbcall special move for a Macaw. Using the pouch on a Summoning obelisk creates 10 scrolls. The scroll does not have to be used outside, but many underground areas will not work. 'Herbcall' will never result in a herb whilst within the Slayer Tower.

This scroll can produce all the herbs that monsters normally drop and at a fairly quick rate (2 in about 3 scrolls). This can be a productive way to make money or train herblore, although it does require a bit of patience. Usually the herbs dropped will be low level herbs, commonly guam, harralander and tarromin.

Note: You cannot use the 'Herbcall' scroll continuously as the Macaw will get tired after you use the scroll, and you will have to wait 1 minute before you can use the scroll again.

Dialogue

This article on a Summoning familiar has an associated dialogue page. Click here for a transcript of possible conversations with this familiar.

Trivia

• The examine text is a reference to the Monty Python Dead Parrot Sketch
• The line the player says about feeding birds alcohol, could be a reference to the quest Eadgar's Ruse where you feed the parrot the alco-chunks.

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