Candice and Cromwell Purchase have dedicated their adult lives to saving the Spix’s macaw, a critically endangered species. Efforts to reintroduce Spix’s macaws into the wild have faced challenges, ...

CURACA, Brazil — All Spix’s macaws are majestically blue in the blazing sun of Brazil’s Northeast, but each bird is distinct to Candice and Cromwell Purchase. As the parrots soar squawking past their ...

CURACA, Brazil (AP) -- All Spix's macaws are majestically blue in the blazing sun of Brazil's Northeast, but each bird is distinct to Candice and Cromwell Purchase. As the parrots soar squawking past ...

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Biologist Ariane Ferreira is one of 13 researchers who received the MAB Young Scientists Award. The winners will receive grants for projects, especially in biosphere reserves worldwide. Ariane is a ...

For the last 15 years, Spix's Macaw has been presumed extinct in the wild. That's until one of the blue-feathered parrots was spotted and caught on video flying near the town of Curaca, Brazil.

CURACA, Brazil (AP) — All Spix’s macaws are majestically blue in the blazing sun of Brazil's Northeast, but each bird is distinct to Candice and Cromwell Purchase. As the parrots soar squawking past ...

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 ...