Parrots (Psittaciformes) are colorful birds that prefer warm or tropical climates. The parrot family includes nearly 400 ...

That’s the kea, New Zealand’s mountain parrot—often called the “clown of the Alps.” This feathered genius is notorious for its mischievous antics, but behind the playful exterior lies a ...

Raoul Schwing remembers sitting on a New Zealand mountaintop, watching a kea hovering in front of him, just an arm’s reach away. The large green parrot had jumped into an updraft, and was flying ...

A critically endangered New Zealand parrot is receiving much needed help. The flightless Kākāpō, though once widespread in ...

For the first time in birds, researchers say they have found evidence that a New Zealand parrot has the avian equivalent ... the researchers say that when kea parrots hear a call associated ...

Michael Archer, University of New South Wales Kea, a smaller parrot species native to New Zealand, learned to claw chunks of fat off the backs of sheep. They even drag seabird chicks—“little ...

Bruce is a kea, a species of parrot found only in New Zealand. He is about 9 years old, and when wildlife researchers found him as a baby, he was missing his upper beak, probably because it had ...

Imagine being rejected by your parents after being born. For Nelson, a baby Kea parrot, this is exactly what happened when he hatched. According to the UK Daily Mail, Nelson was born into tough ...

Being called "bird-brained" isn't much of an insult when you're being compared to the highly intelligent Kiwi parrot, the kea. Kea are the first animals outside the great apes to show they ...

The baby Kea parrot, named Nelson, spent his first month of life in an incubator at the Bergzoo in Germany after being rejected by his parents. He was the only parrot to survive and hatch out of ...

Now, researchers have found that the particularly playful kea parrot from New Zealand has a 'play call' with a similarly powerful influence. When other kea hear that call, it puts them into a ...