Spix's Macaw: The Race to Save the World's Rarest Bird

✍ Scribed by Juniper, Tony

• Book ID: 109093752
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 345 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

An environmental parable for our times � the story of a beautiful blue bird meeting its nemesis at the end of the 20th-century. In December 1897 the Reverend F. G. Dutton lamented that 'there are so many calls on a parson's purse, that he cannot always treat himself to expensive parrots.' He was hoping to purchase a Spix's Macaw, a rare and beautiful parrot found in a remote area of Brazil. Today, the parson's search would be in vain. By the turn of the millennium only one survivor, a lone male, existed in the wild. Spix's Macaw tells the hearbreaking story of a unique band of brilliant blue birds � who talk, fall in love, and grieve � struggling against the forces of extinction and their own desirability. By the second half of the 20th-century the birds became gram for gram more valuable than heroin; so valuable that they drew up to $40,000 on the black markets. When, in 1990, only one was found to be living in the wild, an emergency international rescue operation was launched...