People were breeding scarlet macaws (Ara macao) in, what is today, New Mexico in the 1100s, according to examination of eggshell found at the Old Town archaeological site. The paper is published in ...
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Virus has been detected in 1 of the Spix macaws that are part of a critical program to bring the bird back from extinction
This neglect may sadly mean the extinction of this bird.
People were breeding scarlet macaws (Ara macao) in what is today New Mexico in the 1100s, according to examination of eggshell found at the Old Town archeological site. Cyler Conrad and colleagues ...
For years, conservation teams in New Zealand followed individual parrots that lived long enough to outlast the people ...
New Zealand conservationists have been fighting for years to keep the kakapo, the world’s only flightless parrot, from disappearing, with intensive conservation efforts.
"We are preparing for what might be the biggest breeding season since the program began 30 years ago," one conservationist said Getty Conservationists in New Zealand are more optimistic than ever ...
Recovery of Brazil's Spix's macaw, popularized in animated 'Rio' films, threatened by climate change
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 previous study that I shared with you indicated that Indigenous people started breeding parrots in captivity more than 1000 years ago (more here). That study found evidence that macaws lived in ...
A total of 59 healthy kākāpō chicks have hatched over the last few weeks, according to the latest tally by Aotearoa New Zealand’s Department of Conservation. This marks one of the most successful ...
As the tight beam of the scanning electron microscope focused on a tiny fragment of ancient eggshell, I immediately saw one of the inner shell’s layers had been partially reabsorbed. This exciting ...
(Nelson ALMEIDA/AFP/AFP) Brazilian police said Wednesday they were probing the outbreak of a lethal virus among some of the last Spix's Macaws, one of the world's rarest birds -- made famous as the ...
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