The Spix’s macaw was declared extinct in the wild in 2019 (Reuters) A rare, vivid-blue parrot, declared extinct in the wild in 2019 before a captive-breeding programme began reintroducing it to Brazil ...

The bride looks as if she wants to get on with it. Fussing and squawking, fresh from a transatlantic voyage, she clambers around a metal cage in a white-tiled quarantine room, ready to play her part ...

Spix's macaws live mostly in captivity, with 27 housed at the Sao Paulo zoo - Copyright AFP Nelson ALMEIDA Spix's macaws live mostly in captivity, with 27 housed at ...

Colombo, June 8 (Daily Mirror) - The Dehiwala Police launched an investigation following the theft of a Blue-and-Yellow Macaw, valued at over Rs. 500,000, from the National Zoo in Dehiwala. The ...

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, the government said in a ...

A rare, vivid-blue parrot, declared extinct in the wild in 2019 before a captive-breeding programme began reintroducing it to Brazil, has become the centre of an international dispute. For over two ...

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 ...