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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The year was 2000, and Brazil was celebrating 500 years since the arrival of the Portuguese in the country—more specifically in south of present-day Bahia state. Further north of where the caravels ...

Birds of a feather flock together, but it can be hard to tell them apart – unless, of course, you’re an expert ornithologist. Such is the case for a species of parrot that was recently identified and ...

Like many pet owners in San Francisco, Chan Quach likes to exercise his pets at Crissy Field. Only his animals never touch the ground. He's the guy with the two tropical macaw parrots perched on his ...