Breeding and caring for birds is a full-time job for Michele Raffin, executive director and founder of the nonprofit group Pandemonium Aviaries. The longtime animal lover says that after she rescued ...

If you’re like me, you’ve been eagerly anticipating the release of captive-bred Spix’s little blue macaws, Cyanopsitta spixii, back into their ancestral home in Brazil. These parrots are amongst the ...

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 ...

The aviary at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Vandalur, with a dozen enclosures housing exotic macaw species is buzzing always, but the authorities are not excited as very few of them are breeding ...

A Shady Side Academy alum is helping the National Aviary find a nest for its next breeding and conservation center, teaching hospital and educational space. S. Kent Rockwell, Fox Chapel resident and ...