The Lear’s indigo macaw, Anodorhynchus leari, has always been mysterious. Although this spectacular cerulean parrot with its long pointy tail was first described in 1856, its natural range remained ...

French renewable energy developer Voltalia plans to install 81 wind turbines in Brazil’s Bahia state, in an area that’s also the main refuge of the endangered Lear’s macaw (Anodorhynchus leari).

An endangered Lear's macaw (Anodorhynchus leari) flies over a reserve near the Canudos Biological Station, close to the Canudos Wind Energy Complex in Canudos, Bahia ...

Loud screeching accompanies a streak of bright metallic blue as a startled parrot soars out of a forest canopy in Brazil to circle in the air above, its long tail feathers streaming as it flies. This ...

A wind farm in northeastern Brazil sounds like a welcome climate-friendly energy solution, but it is causing controversy over another kind of environmental worry: the impact on the endangered Lear’s ...

The Lear's macaw (Anodorhynchus leari), a species endemic to the north of the state of Bahia, Brazil, nearly went extinct in the 1990s. Thanks to conservation efforts, its population has grown to ...

The 2009 IUCN Red List for birds broke records by listing more Critically Endangered birds than ever before. Despite this, there were individual species that bucked the global trend: Lear’s Macaw ...

The Lear's macaw, one of the rarest birds in the world, is an endemic species of the Caatinga biome, located in the state of Bahia, Brazil. NGO creates an alert and requests an intervention from the ...

WASHINGTON, June 9 (UPI) -- The American Bird Conservancy says Lear's Macaw, a blue parrot found in northeastern Brazil, has been reassessed from critically endangered to endangered. The drop to the ...

THE artist was Edward Lear, best known today for his nonsense verse and limericks (the lines above are not among them), but celebrated during his lifetime for his zoological illustrations. Employed as ...

Deep in an isolated tropical forest, a small group of tourists creeps along a muddy trail. Suddenly, their guide gestures up. It takes a moment for the visitors to focus. Then, they see them: A flock ...