When it comes to speech, parrots have the gift of gab. And the way the brains of small parrots known as budgerigars bestow this gift is remarkably similar to human speech, researchers report March ...

One group of species that's especially interesting is birds. They're distant relatives compared to other animals with interesting vocal capabilities, like whales and elephants, and their brains ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Parrots are so adept at mimicking people that the avian moniker has become synonymous with repetition. Yet for as long as we’ve ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - A Cleveland woman is in a battle to reunite with her beloved parrot of 10 years after she says her own family gave the bird away to the Cleveland Animal Protective League ...

"It’s dangerous for human beings to vaccinate the birds," the health secretary said John Parra/Getty; Getty Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addressed the worsening avian flu crisis, saying vaccinating ...

"Bilbies, kowaris — which are these little marsupial mice — and the night parrot, which is pretty elusive," Desert Channels Queensland program manager Geoff Penton said. The conservation group ...

Since 2022, H5N1 has been infecting chickens, cows, wild birds and cats — among several other animals. With a record number of human cases in the U.S., the situation is getting increasingly ...

Budgerigars perched in a tree. Credit: Sean Kelleher / CC BY-SA 2.0 Budgerigars, small and colorful parrots, are known for their ability to mimic human speech. Scientists have now discovered that ...

There’s something so spring-like about hearing the birds singing in the garden, and I love watching them squabble over the best bird food at the birdfeeder, too. I’m not alone – more than 610,000 ...

Whether they hop around the prairie, dabble in wetlands, flit through forests, or forage along the shore, birds are suffering rapid population declines across the United States. That’s the finding ...

(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) Municipal workers collect dead pelicans on Santa Maria beach in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2022, as thousands of birds have died in November along the Pacific ...