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Protecting the Hyacinth Macaw and the Cerrado

10,000 Birds

The Hyacinth Macaw is more than just another pretty face; these birds are social with strong family values. The Hyacinth Macaw doesn’t start a family until it is seven years old. Check out the World Wildlife Fund’s creative campaign to save the Cerrado. These macaws nest in existing holes in trees.

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

10,000 Birds

They were still listed as Endangered, but wildlife management measures taken in this park were clearly working. We are entering the mixed colony of 11 species ( Grey , Squacco , Purple and Black-crowned Night Herons ; Great , Little and, recently, Cattle Egrets ; Eurasian Spoonbill (below) and Glossy Ibis ; Pygmy and Great Cormorant ).

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