#spix

sorry for the low quality, this is a screenshot of the final work lmao

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The Spix’s Macaw also known as the little blue macaw, is a macaw native to Brazil, first described by German naturalist Georg Marcgrave, when he was working in the State of Pernambuco, Brazil, in 1638 and it is named for German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix, who collected a specimen in 1819 on the bank of the Rio São Francisco in northeast Bahiain Brazil.

In 2018 the Spix’s Macaw was declared the first extinct avian of this century, officially being classified as extinct in the wild as the last sighting of a lone male was back in 2000, the bird never being seen again.

For nearly two decades, the Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots e.V. has worked closely with Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation located in Qatar to bring this beautiful and unique species back from the brink of total extinction! Tirelessly they have worked to bring a population of only 71 birds back in 2010 to a whopping 159 birds!

The Spix’s Macaw De-extinction Project is now moving forward faster than ever with a planned test release of Illiger’s Macaws, another small macaw species found in the Caatinga region, set to happen in 2019/20 followed by the first Spix’s in 2020/21. Where they will then release Spix’s every year for at least the next 20 years

But they can’t do it alone.

The ACTP is a non-profit organization that exists and operates solely on the donations of other concerned people like you and me, who want nothing more than to see these beautiful birds in abundance back in Brazil where they belong. 

This is the first group selected by the ACTP to return to their home in Brazil, to have these birds back in their natural habitat for the first time in 18 years. 

Please, visit the ACTP e.V website here! to learn more about the project, more about these birds, and others that these people have dedicated their life to keeping off the extinction list, and if you would like to contribute to the progress of these animals population growth, and reintroduction, you can visit their donation page here, and just much like the 2010 hit film Rio, we can bring that dream to a reality of painting the Brazilian skies with these beautiful birds once again. 

An older picture of Sopwith and Spix. His birthmark eyepatch was originally a thunder cloud.

Sopwith is the son of Fluttershy and Soarin. He's a Wonderbolt as well as the coach in flight school. A very good and fast flyer, a little bit cocky but keeps it in check, for the most part. His special talent is actually in medicine and taking care of severly injured ponies. Spix is the daughter of Fluttershy and Soarin, and Sopwith's younger sister. She's very much a scatterbrain, but she has a huge heart so we'll forgive her for that. She can talk to birds (and if she tries very hard, bats), who for a long while were the only friends she had and would talk to. Her special talent is also in animal care, specifically for birds (although she does also like to dabble in lizard care).