Brazil is an extraordinary destination for wildlife enthusiasts, offering some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet.

There are two large all-blue macaw species alive in the wild today: the hyacinth macaw, Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus, and Lear’s macaw, Anodorhynchus leari. With a wingspan of one meter (3.3 feet ...

There the macaws (70 in all, actually) -- which were given to Devine by owners who have come to believe as he does, that these birds should not be pets, and if you can't return them to the rain ...

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 their home, the ...

Honduran scarlet macaws. Daniel Sierra It began in 2001. The chartered plane landed on a dusty airstrip in Guatemala, just across the border from Honduras. Under the cover of darkness, its cargo ...

Scarlet macaws are beautiful, rainbow-colored birds. In Peru, scientists have been studying the same population for nearly three decades. But a macaw's life is treacherous from day one ...

The macaws are being released from the top of a hill, overlooking the forest canopy, with plenty of fruiting trees. The hope is that they'll find food straightaway and soon encounter members of ...

Inhabitants of Paquimé, a large settlement that flourished from 1200 to 1450 in what is now northern Chihuahua, raised scarlet macaws more than 500 kilometers north of the animals’ tropical ...

Heidi Fleiss believes that all macaws should be uncaged and flying freely. That is why she’s got 40 of them under her care in Pahrump, Nev., where she lives on 50 acres.

The "Magnificent Macaws" appear several times a day at the new Bicentennial Pavilion, which is near the zoo's main entrance. Macaws are native to South America, but these birds were hatched in Orlando ...

Experts at two of Brazil’s leading wildlife conservation bodies are on high alert following a spate of seizures of hyacinth macaws and golden lion tamarins from alleged traffickers in recent ...

Last year, BioParque gave its macaws more space: a 10,700-square-foot aviary where they fly beside green parrots and golden parakeets to compose an aerial, technicolor swirl.