This bird is living her best life!
Scarlet macaws lay as many as four eggs per clutch, but only one or two chicks survive until fledging due to parental neglect. Scarlet macaw in flight. (Credit: Zdeněk Macháček via Unsplash. NOTE: ...
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 ...
The Spix’s macaw, one of the world’s most threatened parrots, disappeared from the wild at the turn of the millennium due to the illegal pet trade and habitat degradation in its native Brazil. In 2022 ...
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 ...
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Many viewers compared these adorable friends to another lovable human-bird duo from the animated movie, Rio. One person wrote, "Close enough, welcome back, Linda and Blu!" Kam shares Linda's passion ...
African grey parrots may be better able than macaws to delay gratification -- rejecting an immediate reward in favour of a better one in the future -- according to a new study. African grey parrots ...
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, ...