Rescuer Mandy Kocevar, 45, told Newsweek that Winnie's "previous owner's health was the main cause contributing to the ...

All remaining Spix's Macaws reintroduced in the Brazilian Caatinga have tested positive for a lethal circovirus, threatening ...

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

Brazil’s Federal Police launched the Blue Hope operation on Wednesday (3) to investigate the outbreak of circovirus affecting Spix’s macaws in Curaçá, in the northeastern state of Bahia. The infection ...

Yet another barrage of bad luck has struck the last remaining Spix’s macaw in the wild. A significant number of the super-rare, sky-blue parrots have tested positive for a highly contagious and fatal ...

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 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 ...