Spix’s macaw
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If these blue birds look familiar, it’s because they were the inspiration for the parrot in the animated movie, “Rio.” They were presumed to be extinct in the wild for the last 15 years, but a single Spix’s macaw was captured on video flying through trees in Brazil.
However, experts aren’t yet sure if this is a wild macaw. Pedro Develey, head of the Brazilian Society for the Conservation of Birds, told BBC that the bird may have been freed by a poacher trying to avoid arrest.
