When it comes to bird behavior, feather-plucking is a common sign of pet anxiety and should not be confused with preening, ...

These feathered friends have big vocabularies!

People have been keeping birds as pets and companions for thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and many other older civilizations kept birds as pets. It seems only natural for ...

An estimated 20 million parrots are kept as household pets in the United States. Parrots are flock animals, though, who can suffer from loneliness when kept alone as a pet. So, researchers at ...

Researchers trained parrots to call certain birds. Later the parrots chose who they wanted to call. The researchers were delighted when the parrots interacted with each other over the screen.

A new study has found that pet parrots that make video calls to other parrots show signs of feeling less isolated Ellie, an 11-year-old Goffin's cockatoo, learns to make a video phone call to a ...