Researchers are using forensic genomics to protect parrots from the illegal wildlife trade. DNA databases are often used by police to place criminals at the scene of a crime, but Dr George Olah has ...

Australia is the land of the parrot — few places in the world have such a dazzling array of colourful and clever members of the psittacine family.

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 ...

Fourteen Timneh parrots finally got their freedom back on July 8th, 2025. And this time freedom tasted a little like palm fruit. The rehabilitated parrots were released in an area with a healthy ...

Once packed with trees and natural habitat, the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad were home to rare birds, including parrots, but an indiscriminate cutting of trees with the passage of time led ...

Part I. The World of Parrots : Introducing the Psittaciformes. 1. What are the parrots and where did they come from? : the evolutionary history of the parrots : phylogeny -- Part II. The Functional ...

The authors pieced together the long history of parrots in the genus Amazona, focusing on two species — the Cuban (Amazona leucocephala; upper) and Hispaniolan (A. ventralis; lower) parrots — for ...

Parrots naturally live in groups, where communication plays a vital role. They rely on calls and gestures to stay connected, share information about food sources, and alert each other to potential ...