The authors pieced together the long history of parrots in the genus Amazona, focusing on two species — the Cuban (Amazona leucocephala; upper) and Hispaniolan (A. ventralis; lower) parrots — for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Parrots are among the most vibrant and loquacious birds in ...

Birds of a feather flock together, but it can be hard to tell them apart -- unless, of course, you're an expert ornithologist. Such is the case for a species of parrot that was recently identified and ...

Red-crowned parrots first arrived in Texas during the 1980s through the illegal pet trade. Species that have adapted to urban environments are typically considered neutral or even invasive. Instead, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spix's macaw has been entirely extinct in the wild since the start of the century (Getty) (the_independent_577) A species of ...

Learn how cockatoos figure out what’s safe to eat by watching each other, and how that knowledge moves through a flock in ...

There are roughly 11,000 bird species around the world and some 2,000 of them can be found in Colombia, a country with ...

Red-crowned Parrot https://www.flickr.com/photos/juliom/20457677839/in/photostream/ (Julio Mulero, Flickr) An endangered parrot species is making a home in South ...