The bright green parrots start with low-cost social behaviors—like sitting near each other without touching—when first interacting with unfamiliar birds within their species, possibly to avoid ...

A new study shows that parakeets will test the waters before trying to make friends, a behavior humans can use.

Parakeets form new friendships by slowly testing how close they can safely get to unfamiliar birds. This careful process ...

But I had never witnessed what I saw recently: hundreds of birds perched and sleeping in the trees around a car park. There were so many that the tree itself seemed to grow green leaves overnight.

A move to shoot ring-necked parakeets to cut their numbers has been branded 'racist' by wildlife experts. Natural England yesterday announced that from January it will relax rules protecting the ...

In case you missed it, Jan. 5 was National Bird Day. It brought to mind one of the Lowcountry’s most beautiful lost treasures: the Carolina parakeet. The only parrot native to the continental United ...

Small, emerald-coloured birds called monk parakeets (Myiopsitta monachus) invaded Mexico in the span of a decade because of trade policies thousands of kilometres away in Europe, according to a study ...

Parakeets face a massive cull as Government officials consider shooting the so-called 'grey squirrels of the sky,' that are Britain's fasted-spreading species of bird. Sources at the Department for ...

Britain’s booming ring necked parakeet population is pushing out the country’s other wildlife and threatening their numbers, warn scientists Parakeets feed from a bird feeder in a domestic back garden ...