A warm drink is, for many, the key to feeling better. It helps us relax a little, soothes aching throats, and just feels ...

You wouldn't think of the pigeons -- properly known as rock pigeons -- that surround us on city streets as subjects of scientific inquiry. That also goes for the flocks of wild parrots and parakeets ...

Watching Judy Irving’s beguiling, moving and just plain fun documentary The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, it’s tempting to think of it as Dances With Parrots, but there’s no hint of ponderous ...

Chalk up another achievement for parrots, with an odd twist that raises questions about whether the experimenters or the birds know best. Anastasia Krasheninnikova and colleagues at the Max Planck ...

For the first time since its debut in FarmVille, the Pig-O prize game has received a different lineup of prizes than the Mystery Game. While both the Mystery Game and the Pig-O game offer birds this ...

Juan F. Masello never intended to study wild parrots. Twenty years ago, as a graduate student visiting the northernmost province of Patagonia in Argentina, he planned to write his dissertation on ...

Interested in adopting a new pet — or just looking at some ? There are dozens of deserving birds up for adoption at Tucson Parrot Rescue. Animal shelters work hard to care for unhoused pets and ...

'Pretty' parrots are more likely to be snatched up for Indonesia's illegal wildlife trade, a new study reveals. The findings not only expose the key drivers behind the country's illegal trade in these ...

On the brilliant plumage of Pittsburgh’s parrots, parrakeets, cockatoos and macaws last week fell the shadow of Death. Ordinarily Pittsburghers are as fond of such birds as anyone else, and the U. S.