A species of parrots that went extinct in the wild over two decades ago has made a flying comeback following extensive conservation attempts in Brazil. Spix’s macaw, known for its vivid blue colours, ...

The hyacinth macaw is a gorgeous, unmistakable species of macaw that lives mainly in Brazil. The striking deep blue of their feathers and small pops of yellow make it hard to pull your eyes away, ...

Yet another barrage of bad luck has struck the last remaining Spix’s macaw in the wild. A significant number of the super-rare, sky-blue parrots have tested positive for a highly contagious and fatal ...

Q. While traveling through southern Florida, we saw a flock of green birds that looked like parrots. What could they have been? Aren’t parrots restricted to the tropics of South America and Africa? A.

The Spix’s macaw, one of the world’s most threatened parrots, disappeared from the wild at the turn of the millennium due to the illegal pet trade and habitat degradation in its native Brazil. In 2022 ...

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 ...

Brazilian police said Wednesday they were probing the outbreak of a lethal virus among some of the last Spix's Macaws, one of ...