If you’re like me, you’ve been eagerly anticipating the release of captive-bred Spix’s little blue macaws, Cyanopsitta spixii, back into their ancestral home in Brazil. These parrots are amongst the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The disease strikes a major blow to a program seeking to return the Spix's macaw featured in the 2011 animated film "Rio" to its semi-arid natural habitat in northeast Brazil, 25 years after they were ...

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A successful program to reintroduce the Spix’s macaw, a bird declared extinct in the wild, back into its native habitat has been thrown into uncertainty over a split between the two key institutions ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — The only wild specimens of a rare blue parrot, which had only recently been returned to its natural habitat in Brazil have been diagnosed with a lethal, incurable virus, ...