Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...

The Lear's macaw (Anodorhynchus leari), a species endemic to the north of the state of Bahia, Brazil, nearly went extinct in the 1990s. Thanks to conservation efforts, its population has grown to ...

The reintroduction of the Spix’s macaw in Brazil’s Caatinga shrubland faces a health crisis: seven birds have tested positive for circovirus, a highly contagious, potentially fatal disease with no ...

The world’s rarest parrot, declared extinct in the wild, has hatched at a zoo. The Spix’s macaw – famous as the character Blu in the film "Rio" – was born at the Centre for the Conservation of ...

The world’s rarest parrot, the Spix’s macaw – once declared extinct in the wild – has hatched at Pairi Daiza zoo in Belgium. The chick, known from the film Rio, is the first successful birth after 100 ...

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health recommended that people avoid feeding their pets Monarch Raw Pet Food after a house cat tested positive for bird flu and samples of the food also ...

A search to find a missing pet bird that got loose during a camping trip over the weekend in suburban Palos Hills came to an end Tuesday thanks to a local rescue group. Volunteers with the local ...

NEW DELHI/BRASILIA — This is a story about a bird and a family. But this is no ordinary bird, and this is no ordinary family. Spix's macaw, a vivid-blue parrot with elaborate mating rituals, was ...