"We are preparing for what might be the biggest breeding season since the program began 30 years ago," one conservationist ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...