Declared extinct in the wild decades ago, a newborn Spix’s macaw hatchling at a European zoo is offering the species fresh hope. The Spix’s macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii) is a brilliantly blue parrot once ...

In an unprecedented project in the municipality of São Simão, blue-and-yellow macaws born in captivity were trained in free-flight techniques before being introduced into the wild. Traditionally, in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conservationists are using unusual and innovative methods to reintroduce a parrot which had become extinct in Argentina for 150 ...

The pairing is a "necessary and important step" to save the red-fronted macaw, a Twycross Zoo employee said Bailey Richards is a Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 ...

The fate of the Spix's macaw -- featured in the 2011 animated film "Rio" -- has been the subject of a fierce battle between private breeders and the government ...

The Lear's macaw, one of the rarest birds in the world, is an endemic species of the Caatinga biome, located in the state of Bahia, Brazil. NGO creates an alert and requests an intervention from the ...

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Brazilian police said Wednesday they were probing the outbreak of a lethal virus among some of the last Spix's macaws, one of the world's rarest birds -- made famous as the blue parrot in the 2011 ...