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 ...

The once-abundant wild parrots vanished mysteriously in the early 20th century. Now scientists are closer to solving their disappearance. The last captive Carolina parakeet in the United States, a ...

Meet Disco the Parakeet, a talking budgerigar (budgie) that has become a viral video sensation this month. "He's a dabba dabba doo bird, a dabby gay bird!" the colorful bird squawks to the tune of the ...

In case you missed it, Jan. 5 was National Bird Day. It brought to mind one of the Lowcountry’s most beautiful lost treasures: the Carolina parakeet. The only parrot native to the continental United ...

A nesting association between invasive and native bird species can counteract predators to aid the spread of an invasive species across non-urban habitats, where the invasives may become crop pests A ...

A move to shoot ring-necked parakeets to cut their numbers has been branded 'racist' by wildlife experts. Natural England yesterday announced that from January it will relax rules protecting the ...

Record numbers of ring-necked parakeets are brightening up Britain's dreary winter skies. Numbers of the green parrots have rocketed from 1,500 in 1996 to an estimated 20,000 today, according to the ...

If your garden has become unusually silent despite having a well-supplied bird feeder, you might be facing a parakeet issue, and there's a straightforward method to deter them whilst encouraging ...

Britain’s booming ring necked parakeet population is pushing out the country’s other wildlife and threatening their numbers, warn scientists Parakeets feed from a bird feeder in a domestic back garden ...