With plumage of intense and other-worldly colors, deployable regal crests, and behavior that ranges from coy to maniacal, parrots have little trouble attracting our attention. But what traits fare ...

When a parrot greets with a "Hello!" or imitates a child's laughter, it's tempting to believe it knows exactly what it's saying. But what really goes on in the minds of these chatty birds? Their ...

Why can some birds mimic sounds with enough complexity to imitate human speech, while other birds simply chirp? A new study in the journal PLOS ONE finds that parrots’ ability to learn and imitate new ...

Europe is unusual because it isn’t home to any native parrot species. But despite this, there is a rather large and diverse crowd of parrot species that have established naturalised populations after ...

The sun conure, also known as a sun parakeet, is a brightly colored and very noisy bird. Sun conures were once common in South America, but they are now considered endangered. Conures are part of a ...

Dear Steve: I was delighted by and enthralled by the movie Paulie, and so was my 13-year-old son. I understand Paulie is a conure. Do conures make good pets? _ T.C., Orlando Dear T.C.: Conures can ...

The behavior is so consistent across species and in the wild that some scientists think it must be intentional. By Cara Giaimo Polly wants a cracker. Polly gets chopped vegetables, because parrots ...

In the wild, parrots squeak, squawk, whistle and trill to communicate with their flockmates. These highly social birds rely on their complex communication systems to get food and warn of potential ...