The world’s rarest parrot is suddenly back in the spotlight for the best possible reason: after a four year lull, New Zealand’s kākāpō are laying eggs again and launching a fresh breeding season that ...

New Zealand's rarest birds have seemingly come back from the dead. For decades, they were thought to be extinct until tiny populations were rediscovered, the holdouts that survived against the odds.

The world’s rarest parrot, declared extinct in the wild, has hatched at a zoo. The Spix’s macaw – famous as the character Blu in the film "Rio" – was born at the Centre for the Conservation of ...