In many Argentine cities, cotorras are hard to miss. These green parakeets can be loud, and their oversized stick nests stand out on street trees and in backyards. Their visits usually have a simple ...

Among the cadre of birds that dart along the tree line bordering the Great Western Trail near Lombard is a green-plumed flock that looks completely out of place. That’s because they are. For decades, ...

A colony of parakeets is making a stir in a Long Island community over concerns that their giant nests -- which can weigh hundreds of pounds and grow to 10 feet in diameter -- pose an ongoing power ...

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Chicago — At a quiet street intersection in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, the imposing figure of a pine tree is only outweighed by the massive collection of sticks and twigs carefully placed on ...

American-Statesman business editor Travis Webb asks: “How did those bright green parrots get to Austin?” He refers, of course, to the monk parakeets that seem so alien to many of our city’s newcomers.

Stephen Pound on using rubber serpents to deal with greedy, ring-necked parakeets. Plus letters from Dr Andrew Bodey and Nigel Walker The curse of the ring-necked parakeets so vividly described in ...

Imagine my excitement when I thought I had taken a photograph of a Carolina parakeet, an extinct bird. In the spirit of full disclosure, it was not a live bird (Hello! Extinct!) but an unlabeled, ...

The unfamiliar monk parakeets got to know each other slowly before moving on to behaviors like preening, pictured here. Claire O'Connell Monk parakeets are highly social birds. These bright green ...

Monk parakeets ease into new friendships, slowly approaching strangers to avoid aggressive encounters. Researchers watched how birds shared space, groomed each other, and escalated to deeper social ...

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