The internet has gone wild for a pet parrot determined to make a visiting neighborhood cat his best pal. Coco is a Congo African grey parrot who lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with his owner, ...

Bruce the kea is missing his upper beak, giving the olive green parrot a look of perpetual surprise. But scientists are the astonished ones. The typical kea (Nestor notabilis) sports a long, sharp ...

In December 1977, a dust storm raged through Central California: 100 mph winds yanked trees from their roots, crashed power lines and turned cars and trucks into crushed tin cans rolling down the road ...

A wildlife park will move its "swearing parrots" to a new flock to reduce their use of expletives, said The Times. After five of the resident African greys at Lincolnshire Wildlife Park were removed ...

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Although wild birds in the US may be protected under the Wild Bird Conservation Act (WBCA), Endangered Species Act, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and ...

Ian Hutcheson (Letters, September 8) suggests that avian pets might make an entrance. My family had a budgie called Pip in the 1940s and 50s that loved to perch on an arm of my father’s glasses and ...

Although the Carolina parakeet was at the brink of extinction in the mid-nineteenth century, the remaining, seemingly healthy population vanished suddenly without a trace. Scientists are now trying to ...

Bright green ring-necked parakeets are moving to more and more places in the Netherlands, with almost 10,000 observations reported to bird monitoring website Waarneming.nl last year. The birds are ...

INVASIVE: The rose-ringed parakeet is known to be the world's most invasive parakeet. Research is being undertaken in Gauteng to establish their habitat and impact on local bird species. According to ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

How do we conserve birds? By learning from previous threats. Hundreds of species of bird have been wiped out by human activity in the modern era. Here are just a few species that illustrate the major ...