Alabama’s exotic pet laws are stricter and more fragmented than many people expect. Instead of maintaining a single, comprehensive list of approved pets, the state regulates wild and exotic animals ...

Black-capped chickadees, dark-eyed juncos and cardinals congregate around a backyard feeder as birdseed falls to the grass like sprinkles. Suddenly, from the sky comes a flash of vivid green and blue, ...

Highly intelligent and gregarious, the monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) or monk parrot is a fantastic little bird to keep as a pet. Getting about 11-inches when fully grown and having a much more ...

Europe is unusual because it isn’t home to any native parrot species. But despite this, there is a rather large and diverse crowd of parrot species that have established naturalised populations after ...

HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) -- A woman in Harlem is searching for the owner of a parrot that flew into her apartment. Erika Banuelos has turned to social media to help fight the rightful family of the ...

A pig and a parrot may seem an unlikely pair of friends, but Xena and Jazz are bosom buddies. Xena the miniature pig and his best mate, Jazz the Quaker parrot (also known as a monk parakeet), live ...

On Saturday, the state’s most notorious illegal pet bird species, the Quaker parrot, also called the monk parakeet, became legal. “From the perspective of a business owner, we’re happy,” said Alan Fox ...

A monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) also known as the quaker parrot or Argentine parakeet flies at the Atenas park of Madrid, on September 15, 2016. AFP Madrid: Faced with a soaring population of ...