When you’re looking for a small bird as a pet, parakeets or budgies are generally recommended. The truth is that a budgie is a parakeet! It can be quite confusing, but only in the U.S. is a budgie ...

A move to shoot ring-necked parakeets to cut their numbers has been branded 'racist' by wildlife experts. Natural England yesterday announced that from January it will relax rules protecting the ...

In case you missed it, Jan. 5 was National Bird Day. It brought to mind one of the Lowcountry’s most beautiful lost treasures: the Carolina parakeet. The only parrot native to the continental United ...

Small, emerald-coloured birds called monk parakeets (Myiopsitta monachus) invaded Mexico in the span of a decade because of trade policies thousands of kilometres away in Europe, according to a study ...

But what are these exotic birds doing in Paris and Île-de-France? In the Parisian suburbs, green parakeets stand out sharply against the cityscape, often catching residents off guard and causing some ...

Britain’s booming ring necked parakeet population is pushing out the country’s other wildlife and threatening their numbers, warn scientists Parakeets feed from a bird feeder in a domestic back garden ...