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Scientists have developed a fecal-sampling method that can help identify illegally captured wild birds that are being sold as captive-raised.

The parrots of San Francisco have ancestors from two species that hail from two completely separate parts of South America. Amir Aziz / Bay Nature This San Francisco story begins somewhere along the ...

Pandemonium found me when I moved to Alhambra in 2011. No, really — literal pandemonium, as in a flock of wild green parrots. We have crows too, so you could say murder and pandemonium greeted us when ...

Like humans, parrots have distinct vocal dialects and, like humans, they learn those dialects from their family and friends, so those dialects change when they relocate to a new area. Yellow-naped ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Wild parrots in parts of the San Gabriel Valley have recently become targets for a still-unidentified shooter or shooters with a BB gun. Cleo Watts, a ...

Parrots are famously chatty birds. They converse with each other, with other birds and even with their human companions. Research has additionally found that at least some parrots can understand the ...

San Francisco's famed wild parrots, Riz Ahmed, Amanda Peet and a lovestruck mermaid are highlights this week. Celebrating ...

Worldwide, people buy and hunt nearly half of the 11,000 bird species in existence. In Asia, Europe, and North and South ...