The Spix’s Macaw, better known as Blu to Rio fans, has been wiped out. According to CBS News, a new study by BirdLife International has found that the parrot species, which inspired the main ...

For the Spix's macaws, immortalized in the popular animated “Rio” films, the road back from the edge of extinction has been a long, winding and bumpy one. Threats that had devastated the Spix ...