In the first minutes of Rio, the new animated feature from 20th Century Fox’s Blue Sky studio, the 3-D screen explodes in a riot of tropical plumage. A thousand species of birds in the Amazonian ...

The Spix’s macaw achieved onscreen fame in 20th Century Fox’s “Rio” as a charming parrot ... But a study released this week found that the Brazilian bird is now extinct in the wild.

In 2011's lushly animated hit Rio, domesticated macaw Blu (Jesse Eisenberg) and his wild same-species blind date Jewel (Anne Hathaway) hit it off and sent box-office sparks flying. Now, the birds ...

One of the little blue parrots inspired the 2011 hit animated kids' movie Rio. Now they're on a list of eight bird species that scientists say have disappeared in the past decade. The list ...