“You have to ask why birds would do this,” says Joe Corbo, a biologist at Washington University in St. Louis. “And one of the leading hypotheses is that the male has elaborate ornaments or colors that ...

Free-living red-crowned parrots have been adapting so well to urban life in California, Florida, and Texas that their population numbers may rival those in their native Mexico, says a team of US ...

Parrots, long a favorite pet animal, are attractive to owners because of their vibrant colors. But those colors may mean more to parrots than what meets the eye. TEMPE, Ariz. – Parrots, long a ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) – U.S. researchers are launching studies on Mexico's red-crowned parrot — a species that has been adapting so well to living in cities in California and Texas after escaping from the ...

(NEXSTAR) — The Lone Star State may not be the first place you would think to find wild parrots but one species of parrot has defied the odds to become a native Texan. What’s more, new research shows ...

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Some birds are feathered tufts of color so resplendent that they stand out brilliantly from their surroundings. "You have to ask why birds would do this," says Joe Corbo, a biologist at Washington ...

Parrots are unique among birds in how they produce the pigmentation that makes their vibrant feathering. It turns out a single enzyme calibrates... How parrot plumage gets its dazzling reds and ...