The scarlet macaw population in Central America’s largest wilderness area had dwindled drastically. The Indigenous Miskito people stepped in to help save them. A scarlet macaw perches on a tree branch ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The northern subspecies of the scarlet macaw (Ara macao cyanoptera) has disappeared from much of its former range in Mexico and Central America due ...

Back in the early 1970s, Sarasota Jungle Gardens, a popular local attraction since it opened in 1936, created the Exotic Bird Show, where parrots and macaws rode bikes, roller-skated and showed off ...

New data on macaw movements gathered by the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences' (CVMBS) The Macaw Society has the potential to greatly improve conservation ...

For biologist Diego Noriega, the sleepless nights begin in March. During breeding season at Mexico’s Chajul Biological Station, he sets his alarm clock every two hours, each time going to the ...

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 ...

It began in 2001. The chartered plane landed on a dusty airstrip in Guatemala, just across the border from Honduras. Under the cover of darkness, its cargo was unloaded and shuttled from one country ...

New data on macaw movements has the potential to greatly improve conservation strategies for the scarlet macaw, as well as similar species of large parrots. New data on macaw movements gathered by the ...

Newly shared images show a cohort of 26 young scarlet macaws (Ara macao) released into the forest, part of ongoing efforts to buoy their populations in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve. “All of us ...

A previous study that I shared with you indicated that Indigenous people started breeding parrots in captivity more than 1000 years ago (more here). That study found evidence that macaws lived in ...

People were breeding scarlet macaws (Ara macao) in what is today New Mexico in the 1100s, according to examination of eggshell found at the Old Town archeological site. Cyler Conrad and colleagues ...