BBC at Al-Wabra Wildlife Preservation in Qatar
Sir David Attenborough has just been filming with a BBC crew at Al-Wabra Wildlife Preservation in Qatar
Report on keeping and breeding of the Spix's Macaw
A really interesting report which was published in the May 1991 issue of the Swiss birdkeepers' magazine Gefiederter Freund
Translation of the article in the Swiss financial journal
The translation promised of the article published in the Swiss financial journal Bilanz on 17th May 2013
The final report from the ZGAP
Te final report by Anton Sojer translated by me and published in the ZGAP newsletter
Work in progress
Working on the translation of several documents
Article from a Swiss financial newspaper
Explanation about a puzzling situation with the Spix's Macaw in Switzerland and maybe elsewhere
Update on the Spix's Macaw project from Martin Guth
I have just received an update on the Spix's Macaw project from Martin Guth of ACTP, Germany
Translation of the papers from the ZGAP
Provide much information about the very first measures taken to try to conserve the species
Video of the artificial insemination at Al-Wabra Wildlife Preservation
Following the ground-breaking news of the success of artificial insemination at Al-Wabra Wildlife Preservation in Qatar
Artificial insemination at Al-Wabra Wildlife Preservation
They have succeeded in hatching two chicks from a female Spix's Macaw artificially inseminated
Spix's Macaw conservation by the ZGAP
Some early documentation on Spix's Macaw conservation by the ZGAP in Germany
Statement from Loro Parque Fundación
Statement on the recent repatriation of the Spix's Macaws held there to Brazil
Old film about the repatriation of Spix's Macaw
It relates to the repatriation of two Spix's Macaws from Paraguay to Brazil
The arrival at São Paulo of the two Spix's Macaws
YouTube video about the arrival of two Spix's Macaws at São Paulo's Guaruhlos airport on 26th February
The last Spix's Macaw in the wild
A short film about the footage of the last Spix's Macaw in the wild taken in 1990
Two Spix's Macaws transferred to Brazil
Felicitas and Paula have been transferred to Brazil from ACTP in Germany
Selling Spix's Macaws
An advertisement that appeared in 1979 in "Dansk Fuglehold" about selling Spix's Macaws
Interview with Ryan Watson
An interesting interview with Ryan Watson, which was published in Cage & Aviary Birds in November 2011
Articles from AFA Watchbird
Article about the transfer of a Spix's macaw held at that time at Walsrode Bird Park in Germany to Brazil
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- Great news from Brazil
- Update on the wind farm in the Lear’s macaw conservation area
- Lear’s Macaw international studbook as at 31st December 2018.
- New paper published by the British Ornithologists Union
- Petition against the wind farm in Bahia.
- Some good news from Brazil
- Disturbing article on wind farm endangering Lear’s macaws
- Spix’s macaw film added to the website
- A Spix’s macaw hatches in Brazil’s caatinga
- Poisoning of hyacinthine macaws in the Pantanal through pesticides
- Native trees planted on burned pasture land
- On-line article on American Bird Conservancy website in November 2020
- Interesting paper on the Spix’s Macaw
- Burned pasture land in the Pantanal replaced with groves of native tree species
- Azul Airline decorates one of its jets with images of the Spix’s macaw
- Covid-19 prevents the corn replacement team operating
- Blue macaws help to grow the forest around them
- Fires destroy home of one of the world’s rarest birds in Brazil’s Pantanal
- Another ICMBio president resigns
- Spix’s macaws moved to outdoor aviaries