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 ...

PANTANAL, Brazil - Hyacinth macaws in their cobalt-blue splendor descended on palm trees like exalted angels as we sat in our unpretentious fishing camp along the Rio Piquiri. The birds appeared in ...

A few months ago, I shared a study about parrots’ wasteful eating habits, which found that approximately half of the foods they handled ended up on the floor (more here). Wasting food doesn’t make ...

In a recent study, Dr. Katelyn Bishop conducted a zooarchaeological and archival data reanalysis of macaws and parrots recovered from Chaco Canyon to better understand their depositional contexts, ...

Wild parrots offer respite from Venezuela capital’s crime, pollution CARACAS, Venezuela – In one of the world’s most hostile urban jungles, the spectacle of rainbow-colored tropical birds streaking ...

Macaws are the animals most people think of when they think of “parrots.” They are the classic shape of the bird, the one you find on countless pirate shoulders. They used to live widespread ...

In the animated film “Rio,” a Spix’s Macaw named Blu flies all the way from Minnesota to Rio de Janeiro because he’s the last living male of his species and that’s where Jewel, the last living female, ...

I recently ran across a lovely video that documents one scientist's ongoing research, conducted in the field at the Tambopata Research Center in southeastern Peru. The objectives of the Tambopata ...