A few months ago, I shared a study about parrots’ wasteful eating habits, which found that approximately half of the foods they handled ended up on the floor (more here). Wasting food doesn’t make ...

PANTANAL, Brazil - Hyacinth macaws in their cobalt-blue splendor descended on palm trees like exalted angels as we sat in our unpretentious fishing camp along the Rio Piquiri. The birds appeared in ...

In the animated film “Rio,” a Spix’s Macaw named Blu flies all the way from Minnesota to Rio de Janeiro because he’s the last living male of his species and that’s where Jewel, the last living female, ...

Scarlet macaws lay as many as four eggs per clutch, but only one or two chicks survive until fledging due to parental neglect. Scarlet macaw in flight. (Credit: Zdeněk Macháček via Unsplash. NOTE: ...

Scientists studied centuries-old bird feathers from an ancient tomb on the coast, and then traced the origins back to the ...

The clip shows a scarlet macaw parrot watching a woman cut into a cake that looks a lot like the red bird Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering ...