Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Parrots are among the most vibrant and loquacious birds in ...

That the parrots of Los Angeles are loud is an indisputable fact. The voluble squawks, warbles and trills of the colorful non-native birds (descendants of those originally imported from Mexico as pets ...

Flocks of chattering African gray parrots, more than a thousand flashes of red and white on gray at a time, were a common sight in the deep forests of Ghana in the 1990s. But a 2016 study published in ...

Bird multitudes are slipping away on a global scale, but a new study offers hope for how we can make life easier for them.