“You have to ask why birds would do this,” says Joe Corbo, a biologist at Washington University in St. Louis. “And one of the leading hypotheses is that the male has elaborate ornaments or colors that ...

Free-living red-crowned parrots have been adapting so well to urban life in California, Florida, and Texas that their population numbers may rival those in their native Mexico, says a team of US ...

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

SAN DIEGO (AP) – U.S. researchers are launching studies on Mexico's red-crowned parrot — a species that has been adapting so well to living in cities in California and Texas after escaping from the ...

I have to admit I love the idea of putting an affordable and accessible Asian bistro in Station North, just a few doors down from the Charles Theatre. Apparently, so do a lot of other people. On our ...

Some birds are feathered tufts of color so resplendent that they stand out brilliantly from their surroundings. "You have to ask why birds would do this," says Joe Corbo, a biologist at Washington ...

Parrots are unique among birds in how they produce the pigmentation that makes their vibrant feathering. It turns out a single enzyme calibrates... How parrot plumage gets its dazzling reds and ...