When people think of pets, dogs and cats often come to mind first—but birds can be just as affectionate, intelligent, and ...

Here are the eight lovely bird species beloved for their gentle temperaments, intelligence, and suitability for beginners and ...

More than 11,000 species of birds have been identified to date. Several are kept as house pets, including cockatiels, cockatoos, and other parrot breeds, such as the budgerigar.

When you think about adopting a bird, budgies and cockatiels are often the first species that spring to mind – but did you ...

Parakeet and human brains may be separated by 300 million years of evolution, but the strikingly convergent neurological system that allows both us and budgies to speak could offer scientists a ...

Parakeets are a type of small parrot. The most popular type of parakeet is the common parakeet. Learn more about parakeet behavior, personality, and how to keep one as a pet.

Parrots and humans share a brain mechanism for speech. Budgerigar’s language centers use a "vocal keyboard" that’s surprisingly humanlike ...

Monk parakeets are the only parrot species that construct large nests from sticks, and the nests can weigh more than 300 pounds, according to the National Audubon Society.

(Parrots and parakeets are part of the same family.) These birds maintain barrel-size stick nests not just at this cemetery but across the city. They live in nearby Connecticut, too.

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 ...