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Blu and Jewel ultimately fall in love, have a baby and the movie ends happily — with the hope that the literal lovebirds can save their species. In the real world, however, Blu would've been too late. A new study by BirdLife International , a global partnership of conservation organizations that strive to conserve bird species around the world, reveals that in recent years several bird species have lost their fight for survival.

And sadly, one of those species is the beautiful Spix's Macaw. The species is now considered extinct in the wild, although some of the birds survive in breeding programs. Celebrity cosmetic surgeon's 'barbaric' attempt to fix a tummy tuck under local anaesthetic. The net zero modelling's been released. Here are some of the big assumptions. American journalist jailed for 11 years in Myanmar. American journalist jailed for 11 years in Myanmar Posted 9m ago 9 minutes ago Fri 12 Nov at am.

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More Just In. Back to top. Footer ABC News homepage. Together, the two movie macaws battle wildlife traffickers and eventually start a small family. Director Carlos Saldanha has said he hoped the movie would raise awareness of the challenges facing endangered birds in Brazil. Released this year, an optimistic sequel, Rio 2, follows Blu and Jewel as they encounter a hidden population of Spix's macaws in the Brazilian Amazon. More than a decade ago, Presley rose to fame when he was improbably found living in Colorado.

Like so many of his kin, the bird had been smuggled out of his native Brazil in the s, just as governments were beginning to regulate illegal wildlife trade. During his years abroad, Presley's macaw kin vanished from Brazil's forests, with the last known wild Spix's disappearing in In , parrot enthusiast Mickey Santi answered the phone at the veterinarian's office where she worked. On the other end was a caller with a question about her captive Spix's macaw.

Skeptical of the caller's species identification, Santi went to visit the woman—and found Presley sitting in a small cage. He loved visitors," says Bill Wittkoff, Lymington's executive director. We'd go by his aviary often and he'd always gives us a chirp, a hello. Many parrots need the company of other birds to thrive. Bill Wittkoff and his wife Linda, Lymington's director, first tried to breed Presley with a female Spix's named Flor; the pair produced a bunch of eggs, but the eggs were all sterile.

When Flor was transferred to a different breeding program, a new friend—Killer, a Golden Conure—kept Presley company. Over the past year, health exams had revealed that Presley had an irregular heartbeat.

When he suddenly lost his appetite late last week, the Wittkoffs took him to a university veterinary clinic in nearby Botucatu. They'd hoped Presley would recover so he could move to a refuge closer to the clinic. Deforestation is a leading cause of the Spix's macaw's disappearance from its natural habitat, according to the report.

Spix's macaw chicks are pictured in May For the first time, extinctions on the mainland are outpacing those on islands, the study says.