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Spix's Macaw
The Spix's Macaw inspired the movie Rio — but the real bird's story is much more dramatic. This brilliant blue parrot vanished from the wild in 2000, leaving only captive birds behind. Now, after 20 years of careful work, the first birds have returned to the forests of Brazil. Your mission is to learn how it happened!
Things to know
- •The Spix's Macaw is a vivid blue parrot found only in one region of Brazil called the caatinga.
- •It went extinct in the wild in 2000 because people cut down its forest and captured birds to sell as pets.
- •In 2022, captive-bred birds were released back into Brazil — the first Spix's Macaws in the wild in over 20 years!
- •Scientists are protecting the forest and monitoring the released birds to give them the best chance of survival.
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