Somewhere in the American Southwest or northern Mexico, there are probably the ruins of a scarlet macaw breeding operation dating to between 900 and 1200 C.E., according to a team of archaeologists ...

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 archaeological site. The paper is published in ...

(Credit: Ondrej Prosicky/shutterstock) Native Americans may have kept a breeding colony of scarlet macaws in the American Southwest starting more than 1,000 years ago, a new study finds. The birds ...

DNA evidence appears to have revealed an ancient parrot-breeding operation in the southwestern United States, a new study reports. A team of researchers from several U.S. universities analyzed ancient ...

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 ...

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 birth of two chicks in Brazil's Atlantic Forest signals a major return: scarlet macaws are breeding there again for the first time in more than two centuries. It is a small milestone with enormous ...

Researchers report genetic evidence of pre-Hispanic breeding of scarlet macaws, native to Central and South America, in the American Southwest. Scarlet macaws figure prominently in ancient cultures ...

BETWEEN 900 and 1200 a group of native Americans lived in Chaco Canyon, in what is now north-western New Mexico. They were part of the peoples known as the Ancestral Pueblo. They traded extensively ...

Somewhere in the American Southwest or northern Mexico, there are probably the ruins of a scarlet macaw breeding operation dating to between 900 and 1200 C.E., according to a team of archaeologists ...