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Charlie, a blue-and-yellow macaw, reportedly lived an astonishing 114 years, making her the world’s oldest parrot and a feisty icon of avian longevity and legend.

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By Mongabay.com Six blue-and-yellow macaws are gracing the skies of São Simão, in Brazil’s southeastern São Paulo state, after more than five decades of local extinction, Mongabay contributor Suzana ...