One endangered parrot species just got a major boost: A whopping 20 scarlet macaw fledglings have now taken flight over the forests of Guatemala. Scarlet macaws, one of the world's largest parrot ...

If you love nature, there's one adventure that should appear on your bucket list -- seeing a flock of scarlet macaws flying across the tree tops in a tropical rain forest. The lush dark-green foliage ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - Four species of Central and South American macaws warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The hyacinth, military, great ...

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 ...

A century or more before the Spanish set foot in the Americas, birds of a multi-hued feather were bred together in what’s now a desolate part of northwestern Mexico. That, at least, is the implication ...

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 ...

Geoffrey was born at the ARA Project, a macaw conservation group in Central Costa Rica. His mother was an ex-pet and his father was poached from the wild. When his mother abandoned her eggs, Geoffrey ...

Scarlet macaws are native to the tropics. So how'd they end up in New Mexico? Flickr/Nina Hale A remote northwestern corner of what is now New Mexico isn’t the first place you’d expect to find a ...

When attempts to protect and restore endangered species in their natural habitats prove futile, an alternate strategy for conservationists is to breed the species in captivity and reintroduce them to ...