Wildlife Conservation Society helps scarlet macaws take flight in Guatemala

Melvin Merida, a field veterinarian for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Guatemala Program performs a medical checkup on a wild macaw chick in the Maya Biosphere Reserve. Credit: WCS Guatemala ProgramProgram posts record number of parrot fledglings in 2011

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After fall of Mayan kingdom, scarlet macaw is reintroduced to sacred temple

More than a thousand years after the fall of the Mayan kingdom, the macaw is being reintroduced to the archaeological ruin sites.

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Portlaoise pet shop fined over rare bird

Scarlet Macaw together with a Military macaw. Image by Sandy/Chuck HarrisA PET shop owner has been fined n4,000 at Portlaoise District Court for having an unlicensed parrot and a tube of glue trap.

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Guats hunting Chiquibul macaws to extinction: FCD report

Scarlet MacawThe extraordinarily flamboyant scarlet macaws adorn Belize’s Chiquibul Forest with an awesome and alluring beauty. The bird, once widespread in parts of Mexico and Central America, has Belize’s Chiquibul Forest as one of its last havens, but not for too long if the illegal poaching allegedly occurring at the hands of illegal Guatemalan exploiters continues unchecked.

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Gnats killing birds in area

A Scarlet MacawA mysterious rash of bird deaths in the Teche Area has left residents wondering its cause.

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