Some are big, some are small. They wear feathered coats of amazing colors, or drab plumage that wouldn’t turn a head. Some are loud and raucous, others remarkably mellow. They are the world’s macaws — ...

The Barba Azul extension protects more than 20 small isolated forest islands (including those shown above) which are preferred nesting and roosting sites for the Blue-throated Macaw. Photo by B.

A casual observer of a hyacinth macaw in flight will likely not have had the chance to observe one at the chick stage, when hatchlings spend three and a half months under the watchful care of their ...