When you’re looking for a small bird as a pet, parakeets or budgies are generally recommended. The truth is that a budgie is a parakeet! It can be quite confusing, but only in the U.S. is a budgie ...

Exotic birds from the parrot family you’d expect to find in a tropical climate. What are they doing in places like Beale Park ...

When it comes to speech, parrots have the gift of gab. And the way the brains of small parrots known as budgerigars bestow this gift is remarkably similar to human speech, researchers report March 19 ...

On the Hawaiian island of Kauai, rose-ringed parakeets, which are often kept as pets, have bred in the wild, destroying farms and bothering residents. They may also be threatening native plants. PBS ...

There are no wild parrots or parakeets in Minnesota. Once it was thought the Carolina parakeet's range nipped southwestern Minnesota, but the bird got no closer to us than southern Iowa. That's as ...