The monk parakeet is one of 25 tropical parrot species that have gone from pet to wild animal across 23 U.S. states.

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The released birds are the closest living relatives of the extinct Arabian ostrich. The flightless animals' return is part of ...

New Zealand's critically endangered flightless parrot, the kakapo, started breeding last week for the first time in four ...

The Annual Festival of the Cranes celebrates the return of thousands of Sandhill Cranes and rare Whooping Cranes to Wheeler ...

Fewer than 800 whooping cranes exist worldwide, and nearly 20 spend the winter at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge in Decatur ...

In a world-first, a team of specialised keepers at an Australian zoo have successfully bred one of the nation’s rarest birds.

Funky fish, psychedelic spiders and fluffy gibbons are among the highly threatened animals conservationists say need to be ...

In a world-first, a team of specialised keepers at an Australian zoo have successfully bred one of the nation’s rarest birds. Fewer than 150 western ground parrots remain in the wild, and the race is ...

Parrots represent one of the most interesting and colourful species of birds. The parrot family, scientifically classified ...

Here are the top five longest-living birds, backed by data from Guinness World Records and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...