While the kea parrot’s beak would normally be considered essential for survival, Bruce has innovated other ways of commanding ...

Like many animals, parrots make sounds that suggest they are talking with each other, maybe even calling out to a specific ...

A new study shows that parrots may use names like humans, showing signs of social understanding and individual recognition.

Somewhere in the sun-scorched grasslands of Venezuela, a green-rumped parrotlet lands at the entrance of a wooden nest box ...

New Zealand's kakapo have laid 256 eggs, and around 100 of them have hatched, providing a bright spot in a decades-long ...

Scientists call this ability "entrainment," which simply means syncing your movement to an external rhythm. Humans do it all ...

The parrots of San Francisco have ancestors from two species that hail from two completely separate parts of South America. Amir Aziz / Bay Nature This San Francisco story begins somewhere along the ...

Are parrots competing with native bird species for essential resources or are they living in unexploited ecological spaces?

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 ...

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 ...