The species’ future in the wild depends on that specific landscape continuing to sustain it.

Blue-throated macaws, a critically endangered parrot species, have demonstrated automatic imitation of intransitive (goal-less) actions—a phenomenon previously documented only in humans. In a study ...

Can a species bounce back from being "extinct in the wild"? The blue-winged macaw is showing how it can be done.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Spix’s macaw was declared extinct in the wild in 2019 (Reuters) A rare, vivid-blue parrot, declared extinct in the wild in ...

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 ...

A rare, vivid-blue parrot, declared extinct in the wild in 2019 before a captive-breeding programme began reintroducing it to Brazil, has become the centre of an international dispute. For over two ...

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 ...

An “incorrect” automatic imitation response of a parrot (in the front) in the incompatible group, performing “Lift leg” on observing the demonstrator in the background lifting its leg (showing the ...

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 ...