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 ...

They survived a fire that hit the region in the second half of 2024, when much of Brazil suffered from wildfires. Biologist Humberto Mendes during the training of a blue-and-yellow macaw.

CURACA, Brazil (AP ... to the Spix's macaw extinction threat, the parrot's natural habitat is far from Brazil's most famous city, Rio de Janeiro, and the Amazon rainforest.