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 ...

Costa Rica is home to over 900 bird species, including some of the most exotic and visually stunning birds on Earth.

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 ...

Friends of Animals had asked the Fish and Wildlife Service to increase protections for some macaws. The Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday that it’s sticking with the current Endangered Species Act ...

Explore the rainforest’s most colourful birds with vibrant plumage. Discover 7 stunning species that dazzle with nature’s brightest colours.

The scarlet macaw (Ara macao) stands as an irreplaceable symbol of the unique and extraordinary avian life in Costa Rica. Especially in the Central Pacific region of the country, these birds have seen ...

Scarlet macaw chicks that may have otherwise died in the wild are getting a second chance at life through a hand-rearing program managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Guatemala. The ...

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 ...

Lee ATK, Brightsmith DJ, Vargas MPN, et al. Diet and geophagy across a western Amazonian parrot assemblage. Biotropica. 2014;46(3):322–330. 3. Brightsmith DJ, Hobson EA, Martínez G. Food availability ...

The scarlet macaw population in Central America’s largest wilderness area had dwindled drastically. The Indigenous Miskito people stepped in to help save them. A scarlet macaw perches on a tree branch ...