CURACA, Brazil (AP) — All Spix’s macaws are majestically blue in the blazing sun of Brazil's Northeast, but each bird is distinct to Candice and Cromwell Purchase. As the parrots soar squawking past ...

Candice and Cromwell Purchase have dedicated their adult lives to saving the Spix’s macaw, a critically endangered species. Efforts to reintroduce Spix’s macaws into the wild have faced challenges, ...

Blue and gold macaws (sometimes called blue and yellow macaws) are a type of tropical bird most commonly known as a parrot. Due to the robust exotic pet trade, they are endangered in their home ...

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.

Brazilian police said Wednesday they were probing the outbreak of a lethal virus among some of the last Spix's Macaws, one of ...

In an unprecedented project in the municipality of São Simão, blue-and-yellow macaws born in captivity were trained in free-flight techniques before being introduced into the wild. Traditionally, in ...

CURACA, Brazil — All Spix’s macaws are majestically blue in the blazing sun of Brazil’s Northeast, but each bird is distinct to Candice and Cromwell Purchase. As the parrots soar squawking past their ...

A Spix's macaw lands on a tree in a breeding facility project in its native habitat in a rural area of Curaca, Bahia state, Brazil, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. CURACA, Brazil (AP) — All Spix's macaws are ...