Yet another barrage of bad luck has struck the last remaining Spix’s macaw in the wild. A significant number of the super-rare, sky-blue parrots have tested positive for a highly contagious and fatal ...

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NEW DELHI/BRASILIA (Reuters) - This is a story about a bird and a family. But this is no ordinary bird, and this is no ordinary family. Spix's macaw, a vivid-blue parrot with elaborate mating rituals, ...

The fate of the Spix's macaw -- featured in the 2011 animated film "Rio" -- has been the subject of a fierce battle between private breeders and the government ...

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Brazilian police said Wednesday they were probing the outbreak of a lethal virus among some of the last Spix's macaws, one of the world's rarest birds -- made famous as the blue parrot in the 2011 ...