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Quaker parrots, which are actually monk parakeets, congregating at a bird feeder in Edgewater, where some 230 of them make their home. ...more on this story...

This is one clever parrot!

About eight years ago a wild Australian Sulphur Crested Cockatoo flew into a car and broke its wing. The motorist took it to the Vet in Nerang, Queensland, who had to amputate the wing. We adopted her - for which we needed a National Parks and Wildlife permit - and kept her in a cage outside where she was often visited by wild Cockatoos. One of the things that impressed us was how she would push lettuce leaves through the bars of the cage, offering food to visitors.

Parrots in the Pacific, many of which are facing considerable threats, have been handed a significant lifeline with news that the British Birdwatching Fair has raised record amounts towards their conservation.

The bigger the organ, the better the chance of survival, scientists find

It might come as a shock, given the derogatory connotations of the term "birdbrain," but new research by a McGill University biologist and his European colleagues shows the bigger the bird brain, the better.

When John Lege was a boy in the 1950s, he got a kick out of watching his great-aunt's parakeet perch on her head and on her clothesline as she hung laundry...    Read more »

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