SINGAPORE - Six of the world's rarest macaws - two critically endangered Spix's Macaws and four endangered Lear's Macaws - have arrived in Singapore on a 10-year loan at the Jurong Bird Park. The Spix ...

Three young Spix's macaws are pictured in the Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots in 2015, in Schoeneiche near Berlin. (Patrick Pleul/Associated Press) Butchart spoke with As it ...

These include Spix’s macaw, the Alagoas foliage-gleaner, the cryptic treehunter, the Pernambuco pygmy-owl, the poo-uli, or black-faced honeycreeper and the glaucous macaw. Five of these new ...

The bright blue parrot that inspired the animated film Rio in 2011 is now highly likely to be extinct in the wild, according to a new study. The Spix's macaw is among the eight bird species that are ...

The Spix’s macaw parrot, which was fictionalized as “Blu,” achieved onscreen fame in the 20th Century Fox’s “Rio” as a beautiful blue bird who flew all the way to Rio de Janeiro in an attempt to save ...

Eight bird species, including one from Hawaii, have most likely gone extinct this century, The Guardian reports. This announcement is the result of a new statistical analysis of critically endangered ...

THE artist was Edward Lear, best known today for his nonsense verse and limericks (the lines above are not among them), but celebrated during his lifetime for his zoological illustrations. Employed as ...

Spix's Macaw: The Race to Save the World's Rarest Birds by Tony Juniper 304pp, Fourth Estate, £16.99 In 1900 visitors to the Berlin Zoo may have noted little of significance in a cage containing ...

Found in only one location in northern Bolivia, the blue-throated macaw (Ara glaucogularis) is thought to number little more than 100 individuals in the wild. However the species is protected from ...

The Spix's Macaw, the Brazilian blue parrot that inspired the hero of the 2011 animated movie Rio, is one of eight bird species that are now believed to be extinct in the wild. The study that ...