The term parrot encompasses many bird species. A group given the scientific name Amazona includes about 30 species of parrots native to the New World. With the discovery of a new parrot species in ...

The newly identified Blue-winged Amazon parrot has a loud, short call and evolved from the White-fronted parrot quite recently, about 120,000 years ago. In 2014, during a visit to a remote part of the ...

Despite its flamboyant feathers and shrill call, this elusive bird had remained unknown to science, until now. Meet the blue-winged Amazon (Amazona gomezgarzai), the latest species of parrot to have ...

For decades, countless bird lovers have scoured the Yucatán Peninsula on a quest for rare species. Now it appears they all missed one—and a bright and noisy one at that. A parrot with paint-box colors ...

A local bird owner is asking for Tallahassee to be on parrot watch. Terry Kauffman is hoping local residents can help him find his beloved Clover, a blue-fronted Amazon parrot, which went missing near ...

Parrots are famously talkative, and a blue-fronted Amazon parrot named Moises -- or at least its genome -- is telling scientists volumes about the longevity and highly developed cognitive abilities ...

A parrot abandoned in a trash bag outside the New Hampshire SPCA last week is expected to make a full recovery.The blue-fronted Amazon parrot, nicknamed Mayday, is improving after he was abandoned by ...

The Amazon Rainforest is home to some of the most unique and colorful birds in the world. From bright parrots to powerful ...

In 2014, during a visit to a remote part of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, an ornithologist came across parrots with a completely different color pattern from other known species. A new study names ...