"Our blue jay has decided she’s actually a cat. Lately, Pluto’s favorite thing to mimic are the feral cats she hears outside ...

The bright green and red parakeet now known as Billy once soared with the rest of the wild parrots of San Francisco. The 300-some birds are a natural wonder of the city, heard squawking over Telegraph ...

If you live in California, chances are you've had Polly and friends show up in your yard. You're definitely not alone. California has thriving populations of wild parrots and parakeets, and their ...

Since late 2021, a panzootic, or "a pandemic in animals," of highly pathogenic bird flu variant H5N1 has devastated wild birds, agriculture, and mammals. Unlike previous outbreaks, aggressive culling ...

Avian H5N1 took a big leap about four years ago. Previously the virus, first detected in the mid-1990s, would tear through domesticated poultry, killing off flocks in days. It occasionally jumped to ...

Part I. The World of Parrots : Introducing the Psittaciformes. 1. What are the parrots and where did they come from? : the evolutionary history of the parrots : phylogeny -- Part II. The Functional ...