There's a new and rather unique addition to the bird population at the Fota Wildlife Park in Cork. It is a scarlet Macaw chick which has been bred at Fota as part of the Parks Programme to help preserve endangered species.

Report shows scarlet macaw in an incubator and feeding from a spoon.

Macaws in tree.

The reporter is Tom MacSweeney.

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