For more than two decades, the Spix’s macaw existed only in captivity. Its disappearance from Brazil’s Caatinga was not simply the loss of another bird. With its striking blue plumage and ...

More conservation good news: a macaw species once thought to be Extinct-In-The-Wild is now recovering its numbers, thanks to intensive conservation efforts An adult pair of blue-throated macaws (Ara ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Every morning for the past two decades, the last free blue-and-yellow macaw in Rio awakens alone in the vast Tijuca urban rainforest before flying to share breakfast with her ...

A blue-and-yellow macaw dubbed Juliet is believed to be the only wild bird of its kind left in Rio de Janeiro, where the birds once flew far and wide, per the AP. Almost every morning for the last two ...

In 2000, researchers thought they’d had their last glimpse of a wild Spix’s Macaw, Cyanopsitta spixii, a critically endangered bird formerly found in a small section of forest in Brazil’s Bahia state.

A blue-and-yellow macaw that zookeepers named Juliet flies outside the enclosure where macaws are kept at BioParque, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. Juliet is believed to be the ...

Scarlet macaws are an iconic but declining tropical bird. To change the species' fate, scientists are working to counter a ...

The Lear’s indigo macaw, Anodorhynchus leari, has always been mysterious. Although this spectacular cerulean parrot with its long pointy tail was first described in 1856, its natural range remained ...