To the editor: As Board President of the Plumery, a nonprofit whose mission is to provide a haven for displaced and relinquished parrots, I am grateful for the Nov. 18 opinion piece "I love L.A.'s ...

The Bay Area is a permanent or temporary home for 250 different species of resident and migratory birds. Noise can affect ...

Pandemonium found me when I moved to Alhambra in 2011. No, really — literal pandemonium, as in a flock of wild green parrots. We have crows too, so you could say murder and pandemonium greeted us when ...

That the parrots of Los Angeles are loud is an indisputable fact. The voluble squawks warbles and trills of the colorful non-native birds (descendants of those originally imported from Mexico as pets ...

Birds sing loudly in the morning because dawn cues their bodies to start communicating after a silent night. New research shows birds wake up ready to sing, and they’ll even seek light to start their ...

It is thought they were initially brought over as pets from Argentina - but after one, or two, escaped, the brightly-coloured green monk parakeets have become a problem for those living on the Costa ...

In an effort to quiet his loud pet parrot, a robotics student has created what must certainly be one of the most complex devices ever to be operated by a bird. The "Bird Buggy" lets the parrot roll ...

Pandemonium found me when I moved to Alhambra in 2011. No, really — literal pandemonium, as in a flock of wild green parrots. We have crows too, so you could say murder and pandemonium greeted us when ...