Parrots can live up to 100 years and have specialized needs. Many owners don’t realize what they’re getting into until it’s ...

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 ...

African grey parrots are highly social, and may benefit from establishing reputations for generosity. Papooga / flickr CC BY 2.0 Parrots go bonkers for walnuts. After snatching the seeds, these ...

Viral parrot videos fuel soaring demand, but behind the fame lies a deadly global trade. Conservationists reveal how social ...

Before learning to speak, human babies go through a vocal stage known as babbling, which is a well documented part of the vocal language acquisition process. Basically, babbling is how an animal ...

A scarlet macaw Travis Isaacs via Wikimedia under CC By-SA 2.0 After dogs, cats and fish, birds are America’s fourth favorite pet. Over 7.5 million pet birds live in households across the United ...

Parrots are a popular pet in many American households. They are intelligent, attractive, and entertaining companions that can make a house come to life. But birds have some different needs than other ...

Today the squawks, shrieks, and whistles of parrots reverberate through the rainforest of Puerto Rico. But a few decades ago, these sounds almost disappeared. In a last-ditch effort to pull the ...

Parrots are intelligent birds capable of complex cognition, and it turns out that the genes that play a role in their brain development are similar to those that evolved to give humans large brains.

The throaty squeaks of terror could easily be heard from 20 feet away. A pair of green parrots — likely red-crowned amazons native to northeast Mexico — screeched ...

"Some visitors found it funny but with kids visiting at weekends, we decided to move them," a Lincolnshire Wildlife Centre staffer said Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE ...