Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spix's macaw has been entirely extinct in the wild since the start of the century (Getty) (the_independent_577) A species of ...

I recently ran across a lovely video that documents one scientist's ongoing research, conducted in the field at the Tambopata Research Center in southeastern Peru. The objectives of the Tambopata ...

A few months ago, I shared a study about parrots’ wasteful eating habits, which found that approximately half of the foods they handled ended up on the floor (more here). Wasting food doesn’t make ...

PANTANAL, Brazil - Hyacinth macaws in their cobalt-blue splendor descended on palm trees like exalted angels as we sat in our unpretentious fishing camp along the Rio Piquiri. The birds appeared in ...

In a recent study, Dr. Katelyn Bishop conducted a zooarchaeological and archival data reanalysis of macaws and parrots recovered from Chaco Canyon to better understand their depositional contexts, ...

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The clip shows a scarlet macaw parrot watching a woman cut into a cake that looks a lot like the red bird Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering ...