Pet Birds (Parrots & Parakeets)

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (741+ words) I'm convinced that some bird species are actually little, feathered people in disguise because they're too smart. Of the more than 400 different Parrot species in the world, Macaws have been compared to a 2- to 3-year-old human child, thanks to their…...

6+ day, 57+ min ago   (131+ words) WKMG Family hopes to bring missing parrot home while mourning 19-year-old son The family behind missing-bird signs posted around east Orlando is asking for help bringing their parrot home while grieving the death of their 19-year-old son. Armed sex attack…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (66+ words) Yahoo News Canada An upcoming trial in Italy will rule if the driver of a pickup truck carrying 76 colourful parrots last year is guilty of the crimes brought against him by the Italian border police. Border police had seized the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (326+ words) A plucked parrot left experts scratching their heads but the featherless bird has plenty to squawk about. Steve the three-year-old green parrotlet has undergone a number of tests after being taken in by a rescue centre but appears to be…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (793+ words) Home - Environment - New Zealand’s kākāpō, a flightless parrot that fell to just 51 birds in 1995, now numbers 325 after 90 chicks joined the count, and conservationists are running out of safe islands for them New Zealand’s kākāpō has reached its highest population in…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (140+ words) Ornithologist John McCormack of the Moore Lab of Zoology explains the squawking • 5 minutes ago “It’s like a pub trivia night,” says McCormack. “But it’s a public lecture on an intellectual topic. I did it onstage at El Cid and loved…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (423+ words) Monitoring and safeguarding rare bird species can prove challenging, particularly when they're predominantly active after dark like this elusive breed, but experts believe they've finally confirmed its presence. The night parrot is a diminutive green-and-yellow-hued species, scientifically classified as Pezoporus…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (400+ words) After 32 years of conservation work, the rare parrot is having a strong breeding season in the Sierra Madre Occidental, offering fresh hope for a species that survives only in the high forests of northern Mexico. The endangered thick-billed parrot is…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (807+ words) For more than three decades, researchers have been working to prevent the thick-billed parrot from disappearing from the wild. Now, early signs from Mexico suggest that the endangered species could be heading into one of its strongest nesting seasons in…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1014+ words) A young night parrot, one of Australia's most cryptic birds, has been filmed in a spinifex tunnel in remote WA. The daytime footage captures the elation of a ranger team as they make the rare discovery of the bird in…...