A rare blue parrot that was among the last wild-born members of its species and was believed to have inspired the movie Rio has died outside São Paulo, Brazil. The bird was a Spix's macaw named ...

The breeding centre in Brazil argues that circovirus is not necessarily a death sentence for the Spix's macaw. Photo / Getty Images Brazilian police say they are probing the outbreak of a lethal virus ...

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (AFP) – 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 ...

Brazilian police said Wednesday they were probing the outbreak of a lethal virus among some of the last Spix's macaws, one of ...

Brazil’s Federal Police launched the Blue Hope operation on Wednesday (3) to investigate the outbreak of circovirus affecting Spix’s macaws in Curaçá, in the northeastern state of Bahia. The infection ...

The only wild specimens of a rare blue parrot, which were recently returned to their natural habitat, have been diagnosed with an incurable, likely lethal virus, the Brazilian government said on ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - The only wild specimens of a rare blue parrot, which were recently returned to their natural habitat, have been diagnosed with an incurable, likely lethal virus, Brazil's government ...

The disease strikes a major blow to a program seeking to return the Spix's macaw -- featured in the 2011 animated film "Rio" -- to its semi-arid natural habitat in northeast Brazil, 25 years after ...

The reintroduction program for the Spix’s macaw, a species extinct in the wild and endemic to Brazil’s caatinga, has suffered a serious setback. The Ministry of the Environment confirmed this Tuesday ...