How the Stunning Scarlet Macaw Came Back From the Brink The bird, decimated by poachers and smugglers, is making a big comeback in the Central American rainforest Jordan Salama April 28, 2020 ...

Héctor Portillo began visiting La Mosquitia more than 20 years ago to study the species. By 2010, his research determined that the scarlet macaw population had dwindled to 100 birds, compared to ...

Scarlet macaw remains at the site are dominated by juvenile birds that didn’t reach reproductive age. Owners and breeders today find that macaws won’t reproduce unless fed a carefully balanced ...

Bruce Barcott uses these last few native glories as the basis for "The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird," (Random House, $26, 336 pages ...