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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

This documentary tells the story of the inimitable kea The Clown of the Alps is heralded as the worlds smartest bird its intelligence rivals a monkeys Kea are famous on South Island tracks and ski ...

As a child approaches, the parrot flies away and leaves the GoPro on the ground. “I found it!” the boy exclaims as he picks up the camera. The famously feisty kea parrots, native to New ...

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 ...