Scarlet macaws atop a homemade wooden structure that serves as a nest attached to a pine tree in La Mosquitia. Community members have found that the homemade nests need to be placed more than one mile ...

The Monomet Conservation Sciences has released its 2025 State of the Birds report. The report reveals accelerating declines in bird populations across the continent of North America. These declines ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - Highlighting threats that the brilliantly colored parrot faces from the pet trade and deforestation, wildlife advocates brought a lawsuit to ensure federal protection of the scarlet ...

The Last Flight of The Scarlet Macaw: One Woman’s Fight to Save the World’s Most Beautiful Bird by Bruce Barcott. Random House, 336 pp. $25.95 When I visited the Belize Zoo in 2003, I had no idea of ...

There are only 350 scarlet macaws left in the wild in Belize. They face the threats of poaching and habitat loss. But let us introduce you to the passionate people determined to save these colorful ...

The image of red, blue and yellow missiles streaking across the skies amid a chorus of squawks is iconic. The lapa roja, or scarlet macaw, which lives between 40 and 75 years, can be found in ...

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 ...

Newly shared images show a cohort of 26 young scarlet macaws (Ara macao) released into the forest, part of ongoing efforts to buoy their populations in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve. “All of us ...

The world is starved for heroes, especially environmental heroes, in these increasingly gloomy times amid the gathering onrush of habitat destruction and global warming. Seattle writer Bruce Barcott ...

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 ...