EWExtinct in the Wild
🦜Spix's Macaw
The bird that inspired the movie Rio is real — and barely alive. Your mission: understand its story and learn what can still save it.
Mission briefing
- 1Spix's macaw is a vivid blue parrot found only in one small region of Brazil.
- 2The last known wild individual disappeared in 2000, making it extinct in the wild.
- 3In 2022, captive-bred birds were reintroduced to Brazil for the first time.
4 questions · up to 3 starsPopulation: Around 180 in captivity; small reintroduced group in Brazil