A severe building fire that left one person in hospital was started accidentally, a fire service has said. The blaze on the ...

A flock of ring-necked parakeets who were filmed feasting on the wall of a 19th Century barn were echoing Amazonian feeding ...

Parrots are gorgeous birds that are just as smart as they are pretty. Parrots are ranked as some of the most intelligent ...

For this installment of "From the Archives," we answer a reader question about the monk parakeets and grackles in Austin.

For every bird that becomes a pampered internet star, countless others are snatched from the wild to feed the illegal global ...

Bird organisations say more research on the species needed to control impact on other wildlife ...

LINWOOD, Kan. (KCTV) - The highly contagious bird flu is surging across the Kansas City metro - and wildlife officials warn that it could spread to cats and humans. Operation Wildlife issued an urgent ...

The man was found with the heavily sedated birds in his underwear as he crossed the border from Mexico in late October, federal prosecutors said. By Aimee Ortiz When Jesse Agus Martinez crossed the ...

It may sound like a simple - and simply dull - statement of fact, the kind of thing that people refer to as a 'passing comment' or deploy as 'filler' to fix a dreaded awkward silence. But, while it ...

When scientists played R2-D2’s famous bleeps and whistles for a group of birds, they weren’t expecting a concert — but that’s exactly what they got. Researchers from the University of Amsterdam and ...

Volunteers have found new pairs of powerful owls in South Australia's south-east, where the species is rarely seen. The owls' calls were recorded as part of an acoustic monitoring project across the ...

The relationship between sounds in words and their meaning is thought to be mostly arbitrary. Some linguists and behavioural ecologists, however, argue that the instinctive vocal responses that humans ...