Meet The Bird That Can Count Out Loud — A Biologist Explains How It Understands Numbers

Decades of cognitive research reveal that parrots can understand what numbers represent. Here’s how these birds use them to ...

A bumper berry harvest has New Zealand's weird flightless parrot in a rare mood for romance

Through intensive efforts, New Zealand conservationists have been fighting for years to keep the kakapo, the world's only ...
The New York Times

The Parrot, Its Parasites and a Shared Struggle to Escape Extinction

The endangered kakapo is a flightless bird native to New Zealand. Its population is growing, but its parasites have dwindled. Could that spell trouble? By Jacey Fortin For decades, the kakapo has been ...
Yahoo

Parrot Singing About Being a 'Bad Boy' Will Make You Erupt With Laughter

From being able to close doors to having the ability to flip through TV channels, pets can have all kinds of unique skills and surprising talents. And many pet parents nurture those gifts as much as ...
Los Angeles Times

There’s Owning a Bird and Then There’s Owning a Parrot. Here’s What You Need to Know.

So you’ve decided that owning a bird is going to be the next step of your pet journey. You went to that mom-and-pop pet store and gazed upon the wide variety of birds. Among the canaries and finches ...
IFLScience

A Parrot Named Nigel With A British Accent Went Missing. It Showed Up Four Years Later, Talking Spanish.

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...