CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – In one of the world's most-hostile urban jungles, the spectacle of rainbow-colored tropical birds streaking across the late-afternoon sky has become a natural respite from ...

Strawberry is a 41-year-old Scarlet Macaw rescued by the president of the Bird Lovers Club in Broward County, Florida. Every morning, Daria Feinstein checks the bird feeders in her backyard in Coral ...

More conservation good news: a macaw species once thought to be Extinct-In-The-Wild is now recovering its numbers, thanks to intensive conservation efforts An adult pair of blue-throated macaws (Ara ...

The Lear’s indigo macaw, Anodorhynchus leari, has always been mysterious. Although this spectacular cerulean parrot with its long pointy tail was first described in 1856, its natural range remained ...

World Parrot Day is a fitting time to zoom in on the current state of parrot populations in the wild and understand key ...

Macaws, the world’s largest parrots, are declining in the wild due to over-zealous collecting for the pet trade, poaching, and habitat loss according to a researcher at Texas A&M University. Dr. Don ...

In 2000, researchers thought they’d had their last glimpse of a wild Spix’s Macaw, Cyanopsitta spixii, a critically endangered bird formerly found in a small section of forest in Brazil’s Bahia state.

When we think of parrots mimicking sounds, we usually picture a pet bird shouting “hello,” barking like a dog, or copying a microwave beep. However, wild parrots do something far more fascinating.