New York City parrot shop owner Queron Romain gets over a dozen requests per month to re-home birds whose elderly owners have become sick. Other times, the birds outlive their owners altogether.

CLEAR LAKE — For the past several years Shari Hampton of Clear Lake has being doing home inspections to help parrots at Iowa Parrot Rescue in Lett find new homes. Now her Clear Lake pet store, Animal ...

Once upon a time, Polly just wanted a cracker. Nowadays, Polly might want a Zoom call. A recent study took 18 pet parrots and examined whether video calls could help them fulfill their social needs.

The desire to communicate with pets is a long-held dream among many loving owners. When it comes to our most common companions, we continue to learn how dogs understand our words and what cat noises ...

This blue budgie is a playful parakeet with a typical lifespan of 5–10 years. Macaws and cockatoos can live to be 70–80 years old. averess / Getty Images/iStockphoto My middle schooler decided she ...

Parrots are highly intelligent, social creatures. In the wild, they spend most of their time interacting with other parrots—preening one another, foraging together and roosting in groups at night.