The rare birds in nature represent the delicate balance between species survival and environmental change. Each of these ...

Declared extinct in the wild decades ago, a newborn Spix’s macaw hatchling at a European zoo is offering the species fresh hope. The Spix’s macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii) is a brilliantly blue parrot once ...

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 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 ...