During a walk through the Huntington Botanical Gardens with her mother one morning, Brenda Ramirez was alarmed by the sudden squawks, warbles, and screeches of troops of parrots flying overhead at ...

At dusk, hundreds of wild ... L.A.’s parrots. Experts believe the Los Angeles red-crowned parrot population, estimated at over 3,000 birds, is now larger than the remnant population in Mexico.

Though native to temperate and subtropical South America, monk parakeets can survive the cold winters of the northern U.S. With ... species are living in the wild but also those that are breeding ...

While the Northern Jaguar Reserve helps protect wild cats in Sonora, what had ultimately brought me to Mexico was a project to conserve jaguars that extends far beyond the park’s boundary.

Even though parrots are non-native to Northern California, San Franciscans have embraced the birds as their own. “They’re eccentric, stubborn and colorful. Kind of random. Resilient. The wild ...

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