Experts are celebrating a massive conservation win after a bird no longer found in the wild managed to reproduce in captivity. A pair of Spix's macaws at the Pairi Daiza zoo in Belgium have added a ...

The world’s rarest parrot, declared extinct in the wild, has hatched at a zoo. The Spix’s macaw – famous as the character Blu in the film "Rio" – was born at the Centre for the Conservation of ...

Brazilian police said Wednesday they were probing the outbreak of a lethal virus among some of the last Spix's Macaws, one of the world's rarest birds -- made famous as the blue parrot in the 2011 ...

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 world’s rarest parrot, the Spix’s macaw – once declared extinct in the wild – has hatched at Pairi Daiza zoo in Belgium. The chick, known from the film Rio, is the first successful birth after 100 ...

The fate of the Spix's macaw -- featured in the 2011 animated film "Rio" -- has been the subject of a fierce battle between private breeders and the government Circovirus causes beak and feather ...