Some birds are feathered tufts of color so resplendent that they stand out brilliantly from their surroundings. "You have to ask why birds would do this," says Joe Corbo, a biologist at Washington ...

(NEXSTAR) — The Lone Star State may not be the first place you would think to find wild parrots but one species of parrot has defied the odds to become a native Texan. What’s more, new research shows ...

“You have to ask why birds would do this,” says Joe Corbo, a biologist at Washington University in St. Louis. “And one of the leading hypotheses is that the male has elaborate ornaments or colors that ...

The bird, a nonnative species whose population ballooned in the 1970s and 80s, became emblematic of Temple City, Calif. By Livia Albeck-Ripka Reporting from Los Angeles. For decades, the residents of ...

From the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro to the shoulders of pirates: parrots are synonymous with color for people across the world. In a new study published in the journal Science, an international ...

TEMPE, Ariz. – Parrots, long a favorite pet animal, are attractive to owners because of their vibrant colors. But those colors may mean more to parrots than what meets the eye. For more than a century ...

It began just before dusk, parked in a Harlingen cul-de-sac. We watched from the car as the trees filled with a flock of about 70 pairs, families and larger groups. We watched as they spent the ...

We know the bird can mimic human speech; now a researcher is trying to understand parrot-to-parrot communication. He's looking at the red-crowned parrot, which is the only parrot native to the U.S.