Critically endangered red-fronted macaw chick hatches at Edinburgh Zoo

A critically endangered red-fronted macaw has hatched at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s (RZSS) Edinburgh Zoo for the first time in 20 years.  

Now three months old, the bird has fledged the nest and can be spotted by visitors in the aviary across from the zoo’s Indian one-horned rhino.

There is believed to be less than 800 red-fronted macaws in existence, with the wild population declining due to habitat loss, making this new arrival an important ambassador for the species.