DNA evidence appears to have revealed an ancient parrot-breeding operation in the southwestern United States, a new study reports. A team of researchers from several U.S. universities analyzed ancient ...

Dejan Stojanovic receives funding from the Australian Research Council and from the Australian Federal Government (Environmental Offset). Swift parrots are one of Australia’s most endangered birds, ...

New Zealand's critically endangered flightless parrot, the kakapo, started breeding last week for the first time in four ...

So far, Orange-bellied Parrot Tasmania Program volunteers have spotted the return of six birds to their Melaleuca breeding ground. Of those six, five were wild-born and one was captive born. A ...

As I reach up into the manuka tree, the shaggy, whiskered face of a giant parrot stares back at me before it turns away from my grasp. Fortunately, my colleague Daryl Eason manages to grab its large ...