The Spix’s macaw, a stunning blue Brazilian parrot celebrated in the animated film Rio, has sadly become extinct in the wild. This vibrant bird is among eight bird species declared extinct in a recent ...

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 ...

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Campaigners say some species will be extinct before we even know they exist. The Brazilian spix's macaw is considered to be extinct in the wild, but in 2016 a lone bird was spotted. When it comes ...

However, its superabundance did not save it from extinction at the hand of man. The beautiful blue Spix's macaw of the Brazilian rainforest is the loneliest and, due to man's actions, probably the ...

Was the Rabbs’ fringe-limbed tree frog beautiful? Not in the flashy way of, say, the Spix’s macaw (which is believed to be extinct in the wild) or the Gee’s golden langur (which is endangered).

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October 2022 Explore | Breakthroughs: Blue macaw back from the brink, page 22: The Spix's macaw was last seen in the wild more than 20 years ago and was declared extinct in 2019. September 2022 ...

Overexploitation to supply the exotic pet trade has driven the extinction in the wild of some species, such as Spix’s macaw, and caused drastic population declines in formerly widespread and ...

Your browser does not support the <audio> element. Hyacinth macaws, blue and vast, a metre long from tail to beak; the jaguar, stocky and muscular, whose ancestors ...

Know nothing about horse racing? Never fear, a highly-intelligent macaw called “Bruce” has had its say on who will win the richest race on turf in the world. According to “Bruce”, a ...