This is the second in a two-part report about the reintroduction of the Spix’s macaw, a bird declared extinct in the wild, and the uncertain future of its return. Read Part One here. RIO DE ...

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 ...

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If you’re like me, you’ve been eagerly anticipating the release of captive-bred Spix’s little blue macaws, Cyanopsitta spixii, back into their ancestral home in Brazil.These parrots are ...

With reports of the first human death from bird flu in the US, some Americans are feeling an uncomfortable flashback to the early days of Covid-19, when infectious disease experts were talking ...

Bird-flu vaccines for cattle could reduce the risk of animal-to-human transmission of the H5N1 virus. Credit: Dmitriy Shironosov/Alamy. As bird flu sweeps across US poultry and cattle farms ...

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In most of the United States, spring’s bird migration is in full swing. Thousands of species are trekking thousands of miles across the continent, laying eggs, nesting, and taking advantage of ...

Bird flu outbreaks have forced tens of millions of chickens to be culled across nine states over the past year as more hotspots continue to emerge. So far, the Department of Agriculture has ...

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The Spix’s macaw, once thought extinct in the wild, is being successfully reintroduced in Brazil’s Caatinga biome. In collaboration with ACTP, 41 birds from a German breeding facility have ...