New Zealand's endangered kakapo has a unique breeding cycle. Now, for the first time in four years, the parrots are in the ...

Twycross Zoo's new red-fronted macaws. (Twycross Zoo via SWNS) By Adam Dutton via SWNS A UK zoo has welcomed two of the world's most endangered parrots as part of a breeding program to help save them ...

Rare red-fronted macaws are making a rebound in central Bolivia, thanks to creative conservation agreements with local ...

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 ...

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 ...

PETOSKEY — The Petoskey Regional Audubon Society will welcome Gary Palmer for a presentation titled "Three Months at the Breeding Center and Wild Scarlet Macaw Reserve" on Feb. 13. Palmer spent three ...

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 ...