A study examining fossilized droppings reveals the kākāpō has faced a decline in the diversity of its parasites—and that ...

The endangered kakapo is a flightless bird native to New Zealand. Its population is growing, but its parasites have dwindled.

An endangered parrot species is making a home in South Texas, much to the delight of researchers who say it’s a unique case of animals expanding into urban areas. Texas has an estimated ...

Of the 387 parrot species known today, almost one third (109) are on the Red List. Of these, 17 are "threatened with extinction" and 38 are "endangered." ...

The chatty green parrots had a front-row seat to a spine-chilling show. Tethered to a tree branch not far from their cage, another parrot, similar in appearance but of a different species, was ...

The parrot was adorned in red highlights on its green crown, rose-like feathers on the forehead, large yellow-ringed eyes, and as the name suggests, wings of blue.

Yellow pigment is half of the yellow + blue equation necessary to make green plumage color in parrots. When the yellow gene is deactivated, parrots’ plumage becomes blue.