Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experts are celebrating a massive conservation win after a bird no longer found in the wild managed to reproduce in captivity. A ...

NEW DELHI/BRASILIA (Reuters) - This is a story about a bird and a family. But this is no ordinary bird, and this is no ordinary family. Spix's macaw, a vivid-blue parrot with elaborate mating rituals, ...

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 ...

(Nelson ALMEIDA/AFP/AFP) Brazilian police said Wednesday they were probing the outbreak of a lethal virus among some of the last Spix's Macaws, one of the world's rarest birds -- made famous as the ...

The only wild specimens of a rare blue parrot, which were recently returned to their natural habitat, have been diagnosed with an incurable, likely lethal virus, Brazil's government told AFP Thursday.

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 ...

This is a story about a bird and a family. But this is no ordinary bird, and this is no ordinary family. Spix’s macaw, a vivid-blue parrot with elaborate mating rituals, was declared extinct in the ...

The fate of the Spix's macaw -- featured in the 2011 animated film "Rio" -- has been the subject of a fierce battle between private breeders and the government Circovirus causes beak and feather ...

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 ...

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 ...