Parents, Francisco and Maria Clara - both Lear's Macaws - had laid some eggs in the past but they were not successfully incubated and were just broken. The next time the couple laid an egg, zoo keepers made sure that it would hatch. They placed the egg on an incubator where temperature and humidity can be controlled.
For over 150 years, the birds were only known as pets until a wild population was discovered in eastern Brazil in 1978. About 1,200 Lear's Macaw now live in two wild locations and their numbers are increasing. These parrots are listed as Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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