Parrots are vibrant, charismatic, and fascinating creatures. They have become popular pets, but they are a huge ...

Centuries before the rise of the Inca Empire, a much smaller kingdom on the central coast of Peru already had a sophisticated ...

The team suspected that “these birds were wild-caught in the rainforest, transported alive across the Andes, and kept in ...

A wild blue-headed macaw (Primolius couloni) prepares to waste a fruit in the Amazonian region in Perú. (Credit: José Tella) If you live with parrots, like me, then you spend a significant amount of ...

Captive-bred parrots may develop a different dialect from their wild relatives and this could prevent them from being able to communicate effectively with their wild peers after they’re released ...

Some birds that mimic humans can only say a few words or phrases. For instance, crows in captivity often repeat words like ...

Nanday parakeets have stuck to the canyons around Malibu, so it’s not clear how they got there.

That the parrots of Los Angeles are loud is an indisputable fact. The voluble squawks, warbles and trills of the colorful non-native birds (descendants of those originally imported from Mexico as pets ...

Squawk & awe. Former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss’s rowdy exotic birds are reportedly driving her Las Vegas neighbor crazy ...

Sarasota Jungle Gardens brought some feathered friends to the Leonard Reid House in an event that hosted kids from local schools.

The wild parrots of San Francisco's Telegraph Hill had an unlikely champion in Mark Bittner, the busker-turned-caretaker whose bond with the birds was chronicled in a celebrated film and memoir.