So next time you're in one of the cities where monk parrots are found, keep your eyes peeled, and hopefully you'll be able to ...

Birds are some of the most colorful animals on Earth, with a palette of rainbow tones to feast your eyes on. Here are our picks for some of our most flamboyant feathered friends.

The colorful birds have become a common sight across Los Angeles county, and in addition to amusing locals, they may provide a lifeline for threatened populations in their native habitats. Parrots ...

Nash began photographing parrots and their caretakers in 2014, documenting people in the United Kingdom and the United States who share their lives with dozens of the birds.

Many birds’ plumage colors are somehow derived from the foods they eat (for example, read this) -- but parrots aren’t like most birds.A recently published study has identified the gene ...

With rare exceptions, parrots are colorful -- many of them, brilliantly so. Although most birds with so-called “warm” plumage colors, like cardinals and goldfinches, for example, get their ...

But it wasn't until the 1960s that demand for pet parrots spiked. As more birds were released by or escaped from their owners, colonies started forming in cities around the world.

Birds like cardinals get their colorful plumage from carotenoids in their diets. But the colors in parrots’ plumage comes from chemicals known as psittacofulvins.

In today's birds that might produce a color such as robin's egg blue. Accessibility links. ... Birds Got Their Colorful, Speckled Eggs From Dinosaurs. October 31, 2018 2:40 PM ET.