Scarlet macaws are an iconic but declining tropical bird. To change the species' fate, scientists are working to counter a lethal parenting method that dooms many chicks to death.

Scarlet macaws lay as many as four eggs per clutch, but only one or two chicks survive until fledging due to parental neglect. Scarlet macaw in flight. (Credit: Zdeněk Macháček via Unsplash. NOTE: ...

Newswise — New York, April 10, 2025 – Scarlet macaws in Mesoamerica are highly threatened by poaching and habitat loss. In Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve, only a few hundred remain. The Wildlife ...

You can find plenty of wildlife along the Lake Michigan shoreline, but scarlet macaws usually aren’t part of the mix.

Somehow, colorful tropical scarlet macaws from tropical Mesoamerica—the term anthropologists use to refer to Mexico and parts of northern Central America—ended up hundreds of miles north in the desert ...

New work on the skeletal remains of scarlet macaws found in an ancient Pueblo settlement indicates that social and political hierarchies may have emerged in the American Southwest earlier than ...