The world’s rarest parrot is suddenly back in the spotlight for the best possible reason: after a four year lull, New Zealand’s kākāpō are laying eggs again and launching a fresh breeding season that ...

The red-tailed amazon, one of the rarest parrots in Brazil, has made a remarkable comeback thanks to the tireless efforts of environmental groups. As Mongabay reported, illegal wildlife trafficking ...

For years, conservation teams in New Zealand followed individual parrots that lived long enough to outlast the people ...

New Zealand's rarest birds have seemingly come back from the dead. For decades, they were thought to be extinct until tiny populations were rediscovered, the holdouts that survived against the odds.

The kakapo, the world’s only flightless parrot, was once deemed a biological paradox – too heavy, too slow, and too appealing to predators to survive. Yet, this unique New Zealand native is now ...

Twenty red-browed amazons were released in January 2025 in a forest reserve in Alagoas, Brazil, where only four wild individuals remained after the species was driven to near-extinction by illegal ...

The world’s rarest parrot, declared extinct in the wild, has hatched at a zoo. The Spix’s macaw – famous as the character Blu in the film "Rio" – was born at the Centre for the Conservation of ...