If you’re like me, you’ve been eagerly anticipating the release of captive-bred Spix’s little blue macaws, Cyanopsitta spixii, back into their ancestral home in Brazil. These parrots are amongst the ...

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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 home, the couple ...

The Spix macaw, a bird that had once vanished in the wild, is now thriving in its South American homeland after a successful breeding programme Twenty years ago, the future of the Spix’s macaw could ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Spix’s macaw, one of the world’s most threatened parrots, disappeared from the wild at the turn of the millennium due to the illegal pet trade ...

If Rio 2 provided a macaw’s eye view of the world, this is the story of two extremely endangered real life Spix’s macaws — which are extinct in the wild — ready to make their way to their Brazilian ...

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About 50 of the last Spix's macaws, the blue parrot made famous in the hit animation movie "Rio," will be reintroduced to the wild in Brazil from captivity in Europe, officials said Saturday.

Declared extinct in the wild in 2000, the Spix’s macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii) is now at the center of a pathbreaking effort to restore its presence in its native habitat. Greens Zoological Rescue and ...

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, ...