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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Twelve percent of the world’s species are considered threatened with extinction according to the IUCN Red List, the authority on such matters. While habitat destruction and alien invasive species bear ...

A female Andean condor has laid an egg at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh. Lianni, as the female is known, is now sitting on the egg in a cave in the aviary's Condor Court habitat, with hatching ...

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 ...