The Night Parrot is a medium‑sized ground dwelling bird associated with mature Spinifex habitat in arid and semi-arid regions. Presumed extinct for a century, a population was rediscovered in 2013, ...

Meet the kakapo—a chunky, moss-green parrot that looks like it waddled out of a fantasy novel and forgot how to fly. This New Zealand native carries one of the bird world's most tragic and oddly ...

Budgerigars perched in a tree. Credit: Sean Kelleher / CC BY-SA 2.0 Budgerigars, small and colorful parrots, are known for their ability to mimic human speech. Scientists have now discovered that ...

They also show a range of behaviors, from complex songs to vocal mimicry to whatever it is that you want to call what parrots do. Thanks to a newly released study, however, we now have evidence ...

When it comes to speech, parrots have the gift of gab. And the way the brains of small parrots known as budgerigars bestow this gift is remarkably similar to human speech, researchers report March ...

"Bilbies, kowaris — which are these little marsupial mice — and the night parrot, which is pretty elusive," Desert Channels Queensland program manager Geoff Penton said. The conservation group ...