Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, CanadaRecovery of Brazil’s Spix’s macaw, popularized in animated ‘Rio’ films, threatened by climate change By: Fabiano Maisonnave, The Associated Press ...

Read Story Transcript After teetering on the edge of extinction, the beautiful Spix's macaw has made its return to the wild, over two decades after the last bird was seen in nature. Eight of the ...

The lovebirds featured in the 2011 film “Rio? are Spix’s macaws, which are native to a different region of Brazil and possibly extinct in the wild. Being boisterous with brilliant plumage helps macaws ...

A 21-day-old Spix’s macaw chick is carried in a basket into its incubator at a breeding facility project in its native habitat in a rural area of Curaca, Bahia state, Brazil, Monday, March 11, 2024.

A 21-day-old Spix's macaw chick is carried in a basket into its incubator at a breeding facility project in its native habitat in a rural area of Curaca, Bahia state, Brazil, Monday, March 11, 2024.