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 ...

CURACA, Brazil (AP) — All Spix’s macaws are majestically blue in the blazing sun of Brazil's Northeast, but each bird is distinct to Candice and Cromwell Purchase. As the parrots soar squawking past ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spix's macaw has been entirely extinct in the wild since the start of the century (Getty) (the_independent_577) A species of ...

A rare blue Spix’s macaw that was among the last-born members of its species and was believed to have inspired the movie “Rio,” has died outside of Sao Paulo. The 40-year-old parrot named Presley was ...

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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.

CURACA, BrazilCURACA, Brazil — All Spix’s macaws are majestically blue in the blazing sun of Brazil’s Northeast, but each bird is distinct to Candice and Cromwell Purchase. As the parrots soar ...