Nigel is a British African parrot who has been missing for four years. When the bird returned to its owner, Darren Chick, in ...

One amazing African Grey parrot named Einstein, who lives at the Knoxville Zoo in Tennessee, can say about 200 words. But... WHY? About half of the bird species sing. They learn these songs from ...

The African grey parrot is endangered and it is illegal to sell them Row after row of thin barred cages hold brilliantly coloured birds whose screeches fill the air with a deafening noise.

In 2016, in response to increasing threats to the African grey parrot from the international pet trade and habitat loss in West and Central Africa, parties to the Convention on International Trade in ...

A "depressed" parrot that refused to talk when its owner died has started swearing after finding a new home, the RSPCA said. Jesse, an African grey parrot, was taken to Ashley Heath Animal Centre ...

We focused on 16 threatened parrot species that are heavily traded or which have declined because they were unsustainably traded. Two of these species – the grey parrot and black-cheeked ...

Across a street that serves as a buffer between the bustling market and the peaceful residential homes, a more clandestine trade exists -- trade in African grey parrots. Within the confines of ...

The hub of the trade is South Africa, which exports more African grays than any other country. Historically most orders came from the United States and Europe, but fear of bird flu and laws ...

Before the transfer of African grey parrots to Appendix I of Cites in 2016, South Africa was the leading importer of wild-sourced grey parrots, as well as the leading exporter of those bred in ...

GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Thick-billed parrots, Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha, are an enigma. Despite their ecological and cultural importance, especially to ...

The culprit? A flock of burrowing parrots that has overrun two rural towns in Argentina’s Buenos Aires province as the birds’ habitat has shrunk over the years and human settlements have grown.