“I remember my grandfather telling me about the macaws in this region. So, it’s impossible not to smile seeing them back. We know where they sleep and feed, so every time we want to find them, we know where they are,” says biologist Humberto Mendes, a professor at the Federal University of Alfenas in Brazil‘s […]
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“I remember my grandfather telling me about the macaws in this region. So, it’s impossible not to smile seeing them back. We know where they sleep and feed, so every time we want to find them, we know where they are,” says biologist Humberto Mendes, a professor at the Federal University of Alfenas in Brazil‘s Minas Gerais state.
Alongside Donald Brightsmith, a professor at Texas A&M University (USA) and one of the world’s leading experts on Psittaciformes (parrots), and Chris Biro, considered an international reference in free-flight training for pet birds, the Brazilian led a project to reintroduce canindé macaws (Ara ararauna) in São Simão, in northwestern São Paulo state, Brazil, an area where the blue-and-yellow plumaged species used to exist in the past but became locally extinct more than 50 years ago.
