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 ...

If you saw the movie Rio, you’ll remember the main characters, Blu and Jewel. In the film, they are the last known birds of their kind, called the Spix’s macaw. (20th Century Fox and Blue Sky ...

Washington - A spectacular Brazilian blue parrot, the Lear's Macaw, has come back from the brink of extinction with more than 750 birds in the wild counted in a recent survey, wildlife ...

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.

Unlike depictions in the animated films “Rio” and “Rio 2,” which brought attention to the Spix’s macaw extinction threat, the parrot’s natural habitat is far from Brazil’s most famous city, Rio de ...

Unlike depictions in the animated films “Rio” and “Rio 2,” which brought attention to the Spix’s macaw extinction threat, the parrot’s natural habitat is far from Brazil’s most ...