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 only wild specimens of a rare blue parrot which had only recently been returned to its natural habitat in Brazil have been diagnosed with a lethal, incurable virus, the government said in a ...

A new study reports that parrots who are strangers to each other “test the waters” by forming new relationships through a series of increasingly friendly interactions that are much like developing ...

Twenty red-browed amazons were released in January 2025 in a forest reserve in Alagoas, Brazil, where only four wild individuals remained after the species was driven to near-extinction by illegal ...

Julio, the bright blue-and-gold macaw that greeted generations of Sacramento Zoo visitors as one of its most beloved attractions, has died, zoo officials announced Tuesday. The cause was cardiac ...

The reintroduction of the Spix’s macaw in Brazil’s Caatinga shrubland faces a health crisis: seven birds have tested positive for circovirus, a highly contagious, potentially fatal disease with no ...

The clip shows a scarlet macaw parrot watching a woman cut into a cake that looks a lot like the red bird parrot_mimzo/TikTok A video of a scarlet macaw reacting to a woman cutting a parrot cake has ...

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