RIO DE JANEIRO -- Some have claimed she's indulging a forbidden romance. More likely, loneliness compels her to seek company at Rio de Janeiro's zoo. Either way, a blue-and-yellow macaw that ...

What does it take to save the world's largest parrot from extinction? Dedication, ingenuity - and love. A hot June day in the Pantanal, Brazil. It's the dry season. Although this is the world’s ...

Researchers have discovered that scarlet macaws purposefully neglect feeding the youngest chicks in most broods, even when resources are plentiful. This results in only one or two chicks being able to ...

In an unprecedented project in the municipality of São Simão, blue-and-yellow macaws born in captivity were trained in free-flight techniques before being introduced into the wild. Traditionally, in ...

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: ...

The Houston Zoo successfully hatched two new Blue-billed Curassow chicks yesterday. Considered some of the most critically endangered birds, the Houston Zoo will be hand-rearing one chick (cared for ...

Six blue-and-yellow macaws are gracing the skies of São Simão, in Brazil’s southeastern São Paulo state, after more than five decades of local extinction, Mongabay contributor Suzana Camargo reported.

A blue-and-yellow macaw that Rio de Janeiro’s zookeepers named Juliet is believed to be the only wild bird of its kind left in the Brazilian city where the birds once flew far and wide. Almost every ...

In an unprecedented project in the municipality of São Simão, blue-and-yellow macaws born in captivity were trained in free-flight techniques before being introduced into the wild. Traditionally, in ...

More conservation good news: a macaw species once thought to be Extinct-In-The-Wild is now recovering its numbers, thanks to intensive conservation efforts An adult pair of blue-throated macaws (Ara ...

VISAKHAPATNAM: In a first for any zoological park in Andhra Pradesh, the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park (IGZP) in Visakhapatnam has successfully hatched 27 bird chicks through artificial incubation, ...