The bright green parrots start with low-cost social behaviors—like sitting near each other without touching—when first ...

Parakeets form new friendships by slowly testing how close they can safely get to unfamiliar birds. This careful process ...

Quick Take Parakeets test the water before making friends, ramping up their behaviors from being near each other to grooming ...

New research shows that parakeets slowly build trust with strangers and manage the risks of forming new social bonds.

Black-capped chickadees, dark-eyed juncos and cardinals congregate around a backyard feeder as birdseed falls to the grass like sprinkles. Suddenly, from the sky comes a flash of vivid green and blue, ...

In the urban parks of Barcelona, Spain, the calls of a tropical parrot fill the air. The bright green monk parakeet, native to South America, has found a new home in European cities. Monk parakeets ...

Monk parakeets have been around the Houston area for more than 30 years, but many people are still surprised when they see a flock of the bright-green birds in their neighborhood. Perhaps it's that we ...

This is DAY TO DAY. I'm Alex Chadwick. In Connecticut, bird lovers are crying `fowl' over the fate of an exotic species. The group Friends of Animals considers the monk parakeet to be intelligent and ...

Lively chatter emanates daily from a cellular antenna tower in La Grange. A flock of monk parakeets, a pigeon-sized South American species with bright green plumage, has established a communal nest in ...

Bird lovers say they're friendly and intelligent — but a Connecticut power utility calls them a nuisance, and it's rounding them up to kill them. Tandaleya Wilder of member station WSHU reports on the ...