Cynthia Gill's bird barn is hallowed ground. Strangers aren't allowed inside, and she only visits to feed and check on her 97 birds when she absolutely needs to. Because breeding birds is tricky ...

Trying to describe an adult macaw could consume a dictionary of adjectives–exotic, colorful, intelligent, powerful, not to mention loud when in full squawk. But macaw breeder Charlie Hume’s favorite ...

Elaine Bernstein wants a bird in her hand. But bird breeder Jim Jones says you just can’t rush mother nature. On Tuesday, a Palm Beach County judge tried to smooth ruffled feathers by requiring Jones ...

Twenty years after the species was officially declared extinct in nature, 52 Spix’s macaws (Cyanopsitta spixii) arrived in Brazil’s Bahia state for eventual reintroduction back into their native ...

A century or more before the Spanish set foot in the Americas, birds of a multi-hued feather were bred together in what’s now a desolate part of northwestern Mexico. That, at least, is the implication ...

Plucking The Red Canary off the shelf in a bookshop, you'd assume that you'd found a book about biotechnology. The subtitle touts the eponymous bird as “the first genetically engineered animal”, and ...