Named for 19th-century English poet Edward Lear, the birds have dwindled to an estimated population of no more than 2,000 in the wild, as farming and logging have vastly reduced their habitat. The ...

Lear’s Macaw. Credit: Getty Images. The Lear's Macaw, a critically endangered deep blue parrot from Brazil, feeds almost exclusively on licuri palm nuts.

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 state, Brazil, on May 5, 2023 ...

"Arara azul de Lear, Anodorhynchus laeri, Lear’s macaw in English. Around 450 still live in the wild and some in captivity." Three of these four beautiful blue birds gone or almost gone. I am shocked.

WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - A spectacular Brazilian blue parrot, the Lear's Macaw, has come back from the brink of extinction with more than 750 birds in the wild counted in a recent survey ...

Credit: Getty Images. The Lear's Macaw, a critically endangered deep blue parrot from Brazil, feeds almost exclusively on licuri palm nuts. This highly specialized diet and dire conservation ...