Paralyzed on his right side and unable to speak following a car accident, former firefighter Brian Wilson credits his parrots with helping him get back on his feet. Now, he is returning the favor by caring for birds others no longer want. [ Read More.... ]

Charlie the parrot saved his owner Jeff Blunt's life when he found a new perch - on the phone. The exotic pet was flying free in the lounge when Jeff collapsed with a heart attack. As Jeff, 45, passed out, Charlie landed on the phone, knocked off the receiver and hit the redial button. That sent a call to Jeff's friend John Radcliffe, who he had spoken to the night before. [ Read More.... ]

THERE IS, IN THE END, no telling what tales they had to tell, the two greatest nonhuman linguists of our day: Washoe, the sign-language-wielding chimpanzee with an intense footwear fetish; and Alex, the wildly outspoken parrot, an African gray known to regularly order about his human researchers and to purposely give them the wrong answers to their questions just to alleviate his boredom. After all, we only ever gave them our own words to work with. [ Read More.... ]

Shaken but not ruffled – this is the parrot saved after youths pelted it with stones. The bedraggled blue-faced parrot was perched on a tree near to the Anderton Arms, in Longsands Lane, Fulwood, on Christmas Day, as a group of teenagers threw stones at it. [ Read More.... ]

The Washington Department of Health (DOH) recently was notified that a Florida-based pet bird vendor has supplied 45 states including Washington State with birds potentially infected with Chlamydophila psittaci (C. psittaci). [ Read More.... ]

Birders will be out in force in Rutland and Bennington on Saturday for the Audubon Society's bird count. It's an annual tradition from Dec. 14 to Jan. 5 when volunteers around the state count birds to keep track of the migratory bird population in Vermont and how it may be changing. [ Read More.... ]

Floyd, a Mexican Red Headed Amazon Parrot, was stolen from Ewert's Pets between noon and 4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 22. According to George Blake of Ewert's, Floyd was preparing to go to his new home before he was stolen. [ Read More.... ]

What appears to be a lost pet owl has been adopted by a Mt Lambert woman's pet parrot. The woman, who is now looking for the bird's owner, told the Express yesterday that the pair have been 'liming' together since she took the owl in. [ Read More.... ]

Bird trainer Jennifer Klosowski remembers what Rebel was like when he first arrived – the 8-year-old green-wing macaw, muttered to himself and cowered in the back of his cage. He squawked loudly and paced when anyone came near. His aggressive behavior made it difficult to handle him. [ Read More.... ]

Too much of chocolate can be bad for health. However, for one greedy parrot, it turned out to be positively fatal. The parrot was found dead outside a hotel kitchen in Mt Cook village. [ Read More.... ]

PUPILS from a Tarleton Primary School had an unexpected visitor to their playground this week - an African grey parrot. The children from Tarleton Community Primary are now hoping the owner of the lost bird will come forward so they can be reunited in time for Christmas. Headteacher Angela Fleming rescued the bird from circling crows and seagulls. [ Read More.... ]

In a recently published paper, Asociacion Armonia (BirdLife in Bolivia) monitored the wild birds which passed through a pet market in Santa Cruz between August 2004 to July 2005, and recorded nearly 7,300 individuals of 31 parrot species, of which four were threatened species [1]. [ Read More.... ]

Jinty knew the caretakers of his aviary would be arriving soon. Their schedule was to clean and replenish the bird cage every third day. Discipline here at the Tiergarten Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, was very strict and had been for well over two centuries. [ Read More.... ]

Blimey O'Reillybobs, have you looked at the Christmas decorations in the shops this year? There’s some kind of crazy-assed cultural sea change going on out there. Things are happening that I don’t understand. [ Read More.... ]

Maybe it is because the Thanksgiving holiday has just passed, but all of this week’s questions are about birds! Our feathered friends come in many shapes, sizes and colors ranging from the bee hummingbird (smallest bird in the world, 2.5 inches in length and .05 ounces) to the largest bird (ostrich, 9-feet tall and over 350 pounds) [ Read More.... ]

A half hour’s drive from Rome, to the small town of Lyerly, reveals a world of color and sound and sights one would expect from a South American rainforest. Here, at Parrot Education Project, live a flock (or family, if you will) of exotic birds. [ Read More.... ]

54-year-old Sutart McNae has had to change the ringtone on his phone five times and will probably soon have to change it a sixth time because his blue-fronted Amazon parrot has learned to mimic them [ Read More.... ]

The local council says his perch is illegally parked and is obstructing drivers because it partially blocks a metered parking space. [ Read More.... ]

A WILDLIFE conservation group in Cameroon has said it was considering suing Ethiopian Airlines for complicity after it caught smugglers trying to take 1,000 African Grey parrots, worth more than BD300,000 to Bahrain. [ Read More.... ]

If you step inside AlWood Elementary School and hear the screeching of a bird, do not call animal control. It’s just Al, the school’s pet Quaker parrot and unofficial school mascot. Al’s been living at the school for a year and a half and has made quite an impression on teachers and students. [ Read More.... ]

Recently at Chicago's Department of Animal Care and Control, two unusual birds were turned in - a scarlet macaw and an Amazon parrot. It seems it would be almost impossible to find new homes for creatures like this, except for an organization called "A Refuge for Saving the Wildlife" in Northbrook. [ Read More.... ]

A wildlife conservation group in Cameroon said on Wednesday it was considering suing Ethiopian Airlines for complicity after it caught smugglers trying to take 1,000 African Grey parrots out of the central African country. [ Read More.... ]

We glance over this week's strangest stories including a ban on mince pies and a wisecracking parrot. Japanese scientists found this week that chimpanzees are smarter than humans in some cases. [ Read More.... ]

After eight years of work in Tolima, the International project to save the critically endangered Yellow-eared parrot (The Ognorhynchus Project) has achieved two unprecedented records: the finding of 52 Yellow-eared Parrot active nests in April, and of 132 chicks between May and June. This is a major milestone for a bird that was down to less than 100 just 10 years ago. [ Read More.... ]

Owners of a missing parrot that speaks with a Brooklyn accent and imitates cell phone sounds are so distraught about their loss they have issued a $10,000 cash reward for the bird. [ Read More.... ]

More than 20 people have been treated with antibiotics as a precautionary measure after they came into contact with a parrot that died of an infectious disease. The disease, avian chlamydiosis - also known as ornithosis or parrot fever - can be transmitted to humans and can even be fatal. [ Read More.... ]

Pity the swift parrot: it has the misfortune to tilt against a pulp mill, rather than a windmill, like its orange-bellied cousin famously did. There are perhaps 1000 breeding pairs of the swift parrot left. [ Read More.... ]

The world was young, and animals lived in harmony. Earth had land and water for everyone. So the elephants, kangaroos, deer, giraffes, rabbits and gazelles played together. [ Read More.... ]

A least 18 people are ill after catching what is thought to be psittacose, or parrot disease, after visiting a village bird show earlier this month. Seven of them have been hospitalised after feeling unwell earlier this week with flu-like symptoms. [ Read More.... ]

Fed up with fetch? Driven mad by meowing? Well, have you considered getting a parrot as a pet? It is no wonder that more and more people are rejecting traditional household pets in favour of these beautiful birds, who in many cases have been known to outlive their owners. [ Read More.... ]

Buddy the parrot is back in her owner’s arms — or maybe just perched on his shoulder. A second attempt by the Redding firefighters to reach the bird with their aerial ladder failed to nab the tropical truant Friday morning. [ Read More.... ]

A South African national was convicted and fined Friday for trying to smuggle 44 parrot eggs into New Zealand, officials said. Customs officers found the eggs concealed in a vest under his clothing after he arrived at Auckland International Airport earlier this week, customs investigations manager Paul Campbell said [ Read More.... ]

Bird Flu hasn’t been in the news much lately. Still, controls set up to slow the spread of this disease are very much in force. Such controls affect not only those in the live animal trade, but also expatriates planning to take their pets home. [ Read More.... ]

Ryan is the friendly sort, always saying hello, often whistling at neighbors on their way to work or construction workers just arriving. You might say he's a social butterfly. [ Read More.... ]

As debate rages in Europe over genetically- modified maize and "Frankenstein's potatoes," the continent is quietly moving towards a different new species: the Euro-parrot. [ Read More.... ]

Alex was a famous African grey parrot who could count to six, identify colors and even express frustration with repetitive scientific trials. He died about five weeks ago, after 30 years of helping researchers better understand the avian brain. This streaming video below the fold has a wonderful tribute to Alex and his many talents. [ Read More.... ]

Dozens of Baghdadis flock to the centre of the Iraqicapital on Friday mornings, ignoring the threat to their lives, with a sole aim -- to ease their loneliness in the company of a bird. Their destination is not a cinema, theatre or concert hall -- a rarity in the Iraqi capital -- but central Baghdad's Al-Ghazl bird market. [ Read More.... ]

Not far from Nazca, in the area around Chauchilla, you can find many mummies that were buried here some 1600 years ago. [ Read More.... ]

I just added a four-month-old hawk-headed (red-fan) parrot, Deroptyus a. accipitrinus, to my household. Since I don't have a camera or video camera at my disposal (yet) I decided to share a video with you of another young Hawk-headed parrot, named Scooter, who was approximately five months old in this video. Scooter had just come to his new home four days prior to this video. [ Read More.... ]

For nearly two decades, Greg Glendall has made a career of helping people whose pet parrots behave badly. The British amateur ornithologist makes house calls to parrot owners whose birds scream, swear, mimic inappropriate noises or act jealously by flying at, and biting, family members they don't like. [ Read More.... ]

FIREFIGHTERS have freed a parrot which became snared on a fourth storey ledge building in Brisbane's inner west this morning. The bird became trapped on a ledge between a window and a perspex barrier of a building opposite the Indooroopilly Shopping Centre about 11am. [ Read More.... ]

One thing I usuallly don't talk about is the fact that I occasionally find dead wild parrots on my frequent journeys through their habitats in the Northeast. I usually try to avoid this subject: if I see a dead parrot on one of my tours, and there are kids in tow (as there frequently are), I usually mutter that "death is a part of life" and try to move on as quickly as I can to where I want the focus to be: on the big wide fields where there's lots of life, light, and green-winged flight. [ Read More.... ]

When Alex, an African Grey parrot, died at age 31 last month, he had a vocabulary of 150 words, knew the names of 50 objects and could describe their colors, shapes and composition. He understood concepts such as bigger, smaller, same and different, and could count to six. [ Read More.... ]

A Muncie, Ind., man said his pet parrot saved his life and his son's when it loudly mimicked the house's fire alarm to wake them up. Shannon Conwell said the bird roused him and his 9-year-old son after they had fallen asleep on the couch while watching a movie, the Muncie Star-Press reported Monday. [ Read More.... ]

A pair of scarlet macaw parrots and a gray African parrot were the centre of attraction in the Grand World Show held at Avari Hotel on Sunday. [ Read More.... ]

Dennis Baker's home security system includes three cameras that feed video to 42-inch screens in his living room and bedroom. But it was his pet parrot, he says, that alerted him to a burglar he shot and killed early Tuesday. [ Read More.... ]

Keen birdwatchers have to head north up to the eastern Cape York rainforests between the Rocky and Pascoe rivers to spot this "not uncommon" but elusive local. [ Read More.... ]

You see a parrot perched in a local park -- or a tame quail wandering around your neighborhood. Some naturalists call them "escapee" birds. They're the avian equivalent of a fish out of water, and they're not uncommon in North Jersey. [ Read More.... ]

He calls himself the bird whisperer. He has an awesome way with birds. He rescues and rehabilitates parrots. For Brian Wilson, his efforts are more than a gesture of love. In a way, it's payback. [ Read More.... ]

Q. My son was looking at a man's collection of tropical birds in Waikiki when the bird-owner decided to put a parrot on my son's head. Is it OK to put an animal on someone's body without permission? Also, why are those guys allowed to charge you for taking a photo with your own camera? [ Read More.... ]

Birds are smart. But some birds are smarter than others. I’ve mentioned before the tool-making skills of New Caledonian crows. Turns out these animal are capable of complex problem-solving. [ Read More.... ]

Unlucky Phil Gannon is the most nagged man in Britain - scolded by his wife Denise and his PARROT who mimics her voice. Henpecking pet Lucy Lou tells him: "Get here now", "Stop doing that", and "Come off it Phil". [ Read More.... ]

Buck, a Quaker Parrot, is glad to be back at his home on South Natchez Street after spending almost a week out of his cage with the majority of that time at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Fancher in McCool. [ Read More.... ]

A couple of weeks ago, while I was out of town on business, our cat, Cleo, died of liver failure. My husband and daughter buried her in the backyard, not far from the grave of our other cat, Manny, who had died just a few months earlier of mouth cancer. [ Read More.... ]

Get a parrot Some years ago I spent an enjoyable time cruising on a sailboat. I was fascinated by how many sailors had parrots aboard - and their association was more as a companion than a pet. [ Read More.... ]

The last night parrot seen in the wild was a headless corpse. The remains, found last year in a Queensland national park, looked like an over-sized budgerigar: similar markings and shape but a stumpier tail. [ Read More.... ]

An Echo reader has found a parrot-type bird in her garden shed upon returning from holiday.Gill Tippins, from Countess Wear, Exeter, said she and her husband noticed one of their cats paying particular attention to a spot in their shed. [ Read More.... ]

Alex, widely regarded as the world’s smartest parrot, has died of natural causes at the age of 31. Alex was able to speak over 150 English words, could recognize colours and shapes, had his own brand of one-liners, and was featured in numerous TV shows and scientific reports. [ Read More.... ]

Two weeks ago, Brandeis and Dr. Irene Pepperberg (PSYC) lost an important member of the community--Alex the African Grey Parrot. 31 years old, Alex had worked with Dr. Pepperberg for the past thirty years and accomplished feats that no one would have imagined possible for a bird. [ Read More.... ]

Alex, the Grey African parrot, who with the help of with his life-long confidant, Irene Pepperberg, a Harvard trained scientist, turned the notion of the mindless mimic-bird on its head, passed away June 6, 2007, at the ripe old age of 31. [ Read More.... ]

The New York Times ran an obituary the other day to remark the passing of an extraordinary individual who died suddenly and too young. He was a genius whose groundbreaking contributions to the sciences of neurology and linguistics will still be remembered a century from now. And he happened to be a bird. [ Read More.... ]

Alex the African grey parrot is dead, and all across the country anthropologists and psychologists are dressing in black. Alex was best known to the public as the amazing talking parrot. [ Read More.... ]

America is in mourning. Alex, the African Grey parrot who was smarter than the average US president, has died at the relatively tender age of 31. [ Read More.... ]

Thinking about animals — and especially thinking about whether animals can think — is like looking at the world through a two-way mirror. There, for example, on the other side of the mirror, is Alex, the famous African Grey parrot who died unexpectedly last week at the age of 31. [ Read More.... ]

Some have questioned whether the mental capacities of the late, great Alex the Parrot -- memorialized by Kristen yesterday -- were overstated. “There’s no evidence of recursive logic, and without that you can’t work with digital numbers or more complex human grammar,” said psychologist David Premack in the New York Times. [ Read More.... ]

As you may have heard, Alex, the celebrated African Grey parrot, died recently. He was 31. Irene Pepperberg of Brandeis University began working with Alex when he was little more than a year old, hoping to gain insights into avian intelligence. [ Read More.... ]

He knew his colors and shapes, he learned more than 100 English words, and with his own brand of one-liners he established himself in TV shows, scientific reports, and news articles as perhaps the world’s most famous talking bird. [ Read More.... ]

Update: 2.55 pm Police and an Agricultural Officer on Kadavu have seized a parrot from a village in Southern Kadavu believed to have been bought by a resort owner nearby. Interim Environment Minister Bernadette Rounds Ganilau said acting station officer Corporal Jonacani Tukuca had informed her that a villager had captured the parrot at the request of a resort owner nearby. [ Read More.... ]

Boatswain’s Beach is now the new home for one fortunate female Cayman Parrot, affectionately named Sweet Pea. Sweet Pea had been captured from the wild and had consequently suffered injuries that would make it unlikely for her to survive in the wild again, said a press release from Boatswain’s. [ Read More.... ]

COUNCIL officers have defended a decision to impose a noise abatement order on the owner of three parrots on Portland. Weymouth and Portland Borough Council's environmental health team gave evidence to Blandford magistrates as part of Deborah Coleman's appeal against the order, handed out in September last year. [ Read More.... ]

A bold bird heist was caught on camera and the target was not your typical bird. Three thieves swiped a rare parrot worth thousands of dollars. [ Read More.... ]

Marc Johnson arrived from his latest pickup run carrying two small portable kennels. “Hello,” came a voice from one of the carriers. Humphrey, a medium sulphur-crested cockatoo, peeked through its openings. [ Read More.... ]

The exotic parrot named Skittles was returned Monday night to Petland in Tampa. Hillsborough County deputies say someone called the store manager saying they wanted to return Skittles and would wait at the McDonald's at Hanley and Waters Avenue. [ Read More.... ]

Penelope is moody. "I have to read her body language very carefully before I pick her up," says Sheralin Conkey, a 65-year-old retired schoolteacher who lives in Hemet. [ Read More.... ]

Muffled cries from inside a house fire in eastern Missouri apparently were coming from a talking parrot. The state fire marshal's office is investigating the Friday morning blaze that killed 70 to 100 birds, four dogs and at least two cats. [ Read More.... ]

A Tennessee man recently learned that if you're taking a parrot for a walk, you'd better use a leash. [ Read More.... ]

Hercules the macaw wasn't strong enough to fight off a birdnapper. The South American military macaw, worth about $4,000, was stolen Tuesday from the store where he'd been a pet for 13 years. [ Read More.... ]

SCOTTISH scientists have helped to save one of the strangest and most endangered birds in the world from extinction. The kakapo, the world's only nocturnal and flightless parrot, was facing extinction due to man's invasion of its habitat, in New Zealand. [ Read More.... ]

Peaches the cockatoo lives at the Black Pine Animal Park near Goshen, but has gained national attention for her foul mouth. [ Read More.... ]

For parrot rescuers and their helpers, there is no such thing as a slow day. There are always baby parrots to be hand-fed, wings to be clipped, or another bird in need of a new home. [ Read More.... ]

The Jenday Conure parrot and his cage were taken from the back garden of a house on Gloucester Road on Monday. [ Read More.... ]

A PETRIFIED pooch is being bullied by a cheeky pet parrot who mimics their owner's voice. Hapless mutt Kizzie doesn't know whether she's coming or going when Banjo squawks out orders to her. [ Read More.... ]

It's not often a pet asks to take a shower. Or for that matter, wishes you a safe and happy day. Unless, of course, that pet is a talking parrot. [ Read More.... ]

He was voted as the "cutest vegetarian" in a poll, but now actor Madhavan is being questioned for keeping a pet parrot at home. "I'm aware of the laws against keeping wild animals at home. And, yes, I do have an African parrot at home. But I took that parrot under my wing after its original owners abandoned it," Madhavan said. [ Read More.... ]

AUSTRALIA'S biggest almond grower will pay out more than $56,000 after admitting responsibility for the massacre of 41 rare regent parrots. [ Read More.... ]

A young Sun Conure, a species of parrot, was found July 6 in the vicinity of 5th Avenue and 82nd Street, in Bay Ridge. [ Read More.... ]

A spectacular Brazilian blue parrot, the Lear's Macaw, has come back from the brink of extinction with more than 750 birds in the wild counted in a recent survey, wildlife conservationists said on Wednesday. [ Read More.... ]

Federal customs agents seized 10 exotic birds that a driver allegedly tried to smuggle into the U.S. last week by hiding them in containers covered by heaps of clothing. [ Read More.... ]

During WWII, in the days before cheap computing, guiding a bomb to its target was a more miss than hit affair. While the military were working on their first crude electronic guidance systems, one famous psychologist, B.F. Skinner, had an unusual idea. [ Read More.... ]

I believe pets are an important part of growing up. Pets teach children all kinds of lessons: about digestion ("I can't believe you fed him that ... OH NO!"), about cleanliness.... [ Read More.... ]

The rare orange-bellied parrot is unlikely to threaten the building of Australia's largest desalination plant and should not be used as a political football, Victorian Premier Steve Bracks says. [ Read More.... ]

Twitchers, as the more fanatical members of the human birdwatching species are sometimes called, represent one of the most popular hobbies in the world. For those who love looking at birds, the collecting of ornithological prints is a spin-off that may eventually take over completely. [ Read More.... ]

Poor parenting is believed to have caused the deaths of 46 endangered orange bellied parrots at the Taroona Wildlife Research Centre in January last year. [ Read More.... ]

A HIGH-FLYING parrot has been reunited with his young owner. Cheeky Charlie is safely back behind bars after winging his way across Huddersfield. [ Read More.... ]

THE park ranger Robert "Shorty" Cupitt was repairing a section of track in a remote part of Diamantina National Park, Queensland, when the blade of his grader exposed the headless corpse of a bird he could not immediately identify. [ Read More.... ]

The parrot was probably scared of heights. It's used to being in a cage. Firemen had to be called out to rescue a parrot with a fear of heights that got stuck on a tree. Ollie's phobia only became apparent after he escaped through the skylight of his home in Edinburgh. [ Read More.... ]

Dylan Hargreaves, four, is autistic and suffers severe learning difficulties. Until recently, he never uttered a single word. But several few months ago, his parents added... [ Read More.... ]

HAVE you heard the one about the parrot who was scared of heights? Although it sounds like a joke, the real-life fear was no laughing matter for Ollie and his devoted owner Mario D'Amico. [ Read More.... ]

Mr. Wisenheimer is talking, but he's not telling Lisa Steele what he's been up to for the past few months. Steele thought she'd seen the last of Mr. Wisenheimer after he accidentally escaped from his cage in New Port Richey nearly 7 months ago. [ Read More.... ]

Danyon Nelson, six, of Te Awamutu, checks in with a cockatoo at the Waikato Area Combined Bird Show at the weekend. The public flocked to see more than 800 caged birds on display at the show, which was held at the Te Awamutu College hall. [ Read More.... ]

And to think I didn't want to come to the office that day. It was a holiday, and the last thing I felt like doing was driving to the office when everyone else was out basking in the sun on a beautiful day in the Inland Empire. [ Read More.... ]

Andrea Junkunc's life is for the birds. Birds may appear aloof and content to follow their own agenda from a distance, but the senior bird trainer at Silver Springs attraction knows each quirky personality among the 15 birds who perform regularly at shows she helps run. [ Read More.... ]

Aussie the Australian King ParrotA rare parrot who fled his Shropshire cage has been reunited with his owner after almost a year. Aussie, the Australian King Parrot, fled from his Ludlow home last July. He stayed on the run for almost a year but was spotted by an eagle-eyed resident in Caynham, three miles from his home. [ Read More.... ]

After a week and a half hiatus, Henry the parrot is safely home. Henry, a long-time family pet, flew the coop while the Schulte family was in the he process of moving from their West Miller Street home in Jefferson City. [ Read More.... ]

A leader in the field of animal intelligence, Dr. Irene Pepperberg, will speak in Joliet after a 6 p.m. dinner Saturday at the Joliet Moose Lodge, 25 Springfield Ave. [ Read More.... ]

Spartanburg, S.C. | A Spartanburg couple wants people to think twice before choosing to get a parrot as a pet. For one thing, Pam and David Sawyer say, the bird likely will outlive its keeper. [ Read More.... ]

Certain members of the Yahoo group that call themselves “the wild parrot feeders” continue to feed the parrots in S.F. in defiance of the new ban against feeding them that was passed by the S.F. Board of Supervisors on May 22nd. [ Read More.... ]

This was no parrot joke. A baby Sun Conure parrot was allegedly stolen from the Petco Store on Bald Hill Road in Warwick and mutilated before being found by police in the apartment of a local woman. [ Read More.... ]

Police are hunting a blue-throated Amazon parrot called Chelsea who screeches when anyone mentions Manchester United, stolen from its owner's garden this week. [ Read More.... ]

Polly may want a cracker but a Florida woman is in trouble for allegedly padding her bra with a stolen rare parrot and attempting to peddle it for a vintage car. [ Read More.... ]

In the condominium complex where he's lived for the past 20 years, Harry Bachrach has something of a reputation. [ Read More.... ]

Every time Bert Dalkey opens the door from his kitchen to his garage, 15 exotic birds squawk in excitement. Morning feeding time finds the birds ready to be hand-fed a mustard-looking paste. [ Read More.... ]

Donna Draper, the unit administrative assistant for the Henry County Virginia Cooperative Extension Office, rarely commutes to work alone. Instead, she takes one of her pet parrots with her. [ Read More.... ]

Dusty, the parrot with an attitude, gobbles homework, scares family members in the night by chirping like a smoke detector, regurgitates food when asked for a kiss and even draws blood. [ Read More.... ]

A parrot which can whistle the theme tune to Coronation Street has been reunited with its owners after escaping from its cage four days ago. [ Read More.... ]

A PET owner is today reunited with her parrot which was on the loose for five days from his home in Ipswich. [ Read More.... ]

CHEEKY thieves stole Cheeky the parrot in an early morning raid on a house in St Mary's Park. [ Read More.... ]

INTERVIEW. Nobody knows more about New York’s noisy parrot population than urban bird watcher Steve Baldwin. Two large flocks of the bright green birds live in Brooklyn, one ... [ Read More.... ]

A BROTHER and sister have received special thanks after reuniting a missing parrot with her worried owner. [ Read More.... ]

A grandmother from Sprowston who runs a parrot sanctuary from her home has started a businesses taking in other birds and small pets while their owners are on holiday. [ Read More.... ]

It’s a long – and complicated – story. But the short of it is this: Hudson is back where he belongs. Hudson is a 3-month-old African grey, a much-sought-after parrot species. [ Read More.... ]

Pippa the pet parrot has spent two weeks trying to hatch a bowl of chocolate Easter eggs! The cockatoo has been protecting the chocolates since she was taken outside, and saw them on a table. [ Read More.... ]

The Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors (APBC) has expanded its web site to include a new section on parrots. [ Read More.... ]

US coastguards had to use a helicopter to rescue a man who climbed a 18m pine tree to retrieve his pet parrot. [ Read More.... ]

A Quaker parrot named Bobber, who weighs less than a quarter pounder, rules the roost in my house. Every gram of bird is manipulative. [ Read More.... ]

Annette Sherman was a friend of cockatiels, African greys, Senegals, and the people who love them. The Oakland homemaker, president of the Real Macaw Parrot Club, ... [ Read More.... ]

A FLOCK of noisy, red-and-blue parrots have taught San Francisco a lesson. Cooperation, hope and practicality can solve any problem. [ Read More.... ]

Two years after he was stolen, a talking cockatoo is back home with his owner. It was "I love you, Corey" that brought him back. [ Read More.... ]

A good voice and a colorful personality are always welcome in auditioning for musicals. But right now, Rochester Children’s Theatre will settle for bright plumage and a squawk. [ Read More.... ]

Jeanne Graham and her family -- which includes a Timney African gray parrot and a 4-year-old teacup Yorkshire terrier named "Snuggles" -- all live together in Brownsville. [ Read More.... ]

This week alone, 3 birds worth $2,129 have been stolen from 2 different local stores. Police say re-sale value too high for thieves to resist. [ Read More.... ]

Knife-wielding man holds up city store, and $1,000 parrot is stolen from pet shop. [ Read More.... ]

When the owners of the Yuhung Betel Nut Stand in Kaohsiung's Linyuan Township (???) made the decision to spend NT$26,000 (US$788) on an African grey parrot for their store, they were looking for a pet that could become like a child to them. [ Read More.... ]

It was in November and at a cocktail reception at a swish Queensland rainforest resort that ornithologists learned that their birdwatching ... [ Read More.... ]

If so, we think we know where your bird is. Have you lost a parrot recently? Is your name Bert? [ Read More.... ]

FIREFIGHTERS rescued a parrot and prevented a fire, which destroyed a house, from seriously damaging neighbouring properties. [ Read More.... ]

A RARE night parrot was flying between its feeding grounds and a waterhole in far western Queensland when it struck a barbed wire fence and was killed [ Read More.... ]

The State Government has halted investigations into claims a north Queensland man found a new parrot species and its official ornithologist has stopped work on a scientific .... [ Read More.... ]

A sick parrot has saved the lives of a family who were succumbing to the effects of carbon monoxide .... [ Read More.... ]

A man has been awarded £700,000 in compensation after being left disabled and wheelchair-bound as the result of a disease he caught from a parrot at work .... [ Read More.... ]

A FOUL-MOUTHED parrot called Mad Max survived an electric shock powerful enough to kill a human after he chewed through a power cable. The barmy bird was zapped by 240 volts .... [ Read More.... ]

LUCY the parrot has a lot to answer for. The cute little six-month old African Grey caused a flutter when she escaped from her owner John Weller in Groundwell, north Swindon, .... [ Read More.... ]

THE Suva-based Birdlife International Pacific received $719,000 from the British Birdfair to help in protecting the South Pacific's 37 endangered parrot species from .... [ Read More.... ]

Nature-lover Michael Middleton, from the city centre, donated the exotic birds after the case that held them developed woodworm. It prompted him. to scan the internet ... [ Read More.... ]

A red-crowned kakariki has been spotted in bush on Maungatautari, south of Cambridge, sparking a flurry of interest from conservationists in the area. [ Read More.... ]

The trade in wild birds is to be permanently banned across the European Union starting in July, EU animal health officials have decided. The move will replace a .... [ Read More.... ]

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