Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spix's macaw has been entirely extinct in the wild since the start of the century (Getty) (the_independent_577) A species of ...

A few months ago, I shared a study about parrots’ wasteful eating habits, which found that approximately half of the foods they handled ended up on the floor (more here). Wasting food doesn’t make ...

Parrots captured in the Amazon rainforest by pre-Inca people were transported hundreds of miles over the Andes to coastal ...

In the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, flocks of colorful macaws that once brightened city skies now face disappearing nest ...

PANTANAL, Brazil - Hyacinth macaws in their cobalt-blue splendor descended on palm trees like exalted angels as we sat in our unpretentious fishing camp along the Rio Piquiri. The birds appeared in ...

Like many pet owners in San Francisco, Chan Quach likes to exercise his pets at Crissy Field. Only his animals never touch the ground. He's the guy with the two tropical macaw parrots perched on his ...

African grey parrots may be better able than macaws to delay gratification -- rejecting an immediate reward in favour of a better one in the future -- according to a new study. African grey parrots ...

The clip shows a scarlet macaw parrot watching a woman cut into a cake that looks a lot like the red bird Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering ...