The hyacinth macaw is a gorgeous, unmistakable species of macaw that lives mainly in Brazil. The striking deep blue of their feathers and small pops of yellow make it hard to pull your eyes away, ...

Scarlet macaws lay as many as four eggs per clutch, but only one or two chicks survive until fledging due to parental neglect. Scarlet macaw in flight. (Credit: Zdeněk Macháček via Unsplash. NOTE: ...

The Lear’s indigo macaw, Anodorhynchus leari, has always been mysterious. Although this spectacular cerulean parrot with its long pointy tail was first described in 1856, its natural range remained ...

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 and habitat degradation in its native Brazil. In 2022 ...

Aside from Juliet, the last sighting of a blue-and-yellow macaw flying free in Rio was in 1818 by an Austrian naturalist, according to Marcelo Rheingantz, a biologist at the Federal University of Rio ...