The Puerto Rican parrot (Amazona vittata) was considered nearly extinct until very recently, when a major reintroduction project took place in the 1980s. These beautiful green birds with their ...

Budgerigars have a plethora of “color-coded” genes The normal wild -- “wild type” -- budgerigar, Melopsittacus undulatus, is a small green parrot with a yellow face, a long pointed tail ...

The workers instinctively duck and whip round and look up and see -- those crazy green ... Most Brooklyn parrots live in colonies of 50 or 60 birds, although a few less sociable types live on ...

Red-and-green macaws at a clay lick ... Why would various types of macaws and other parrots want to gorge on clay when normally they eat plant matter? At first, studies hinted that the ...

Researchers described biofluorescence in 37 of the 45 known species of birds-of-paradise, found only in remote tropical forests and woodland habitats of Papua New Guinea, eastern Indonesia and ...

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