Not all pet birds have the physical or cognitive ability to learn songs, and understanding the difference can help owners set ...

Babies learn to speak by mimicking their parents – just ask anyone who’s caught their child casually repeating an obscenity they didn’t realize they'd heard. While studying just what’s going on in the ...

Parrots can live a very long time, some up to 70 years or more. That’s a long time to do the same thing, day in, day out — even if it does have a big cage with a nice view. Fortunately, there are some ...

When it comes to what birds have and what humans don’t, your mind might first land on the ability to fly. However, birds are also pretty good at navigating from the air… assuming, that is, they know ...

“We often read to the birds to calm them down and get them used to hearing the human voice,” Douglas explained. She refers to birds that perform as “the faculty,” as it is they, not she, who are ...

You might not be able to teach an old dog new tricks, but apparently Australia's sulphur-crested cockatoos are never too old to teach themselves. New research showcases that the Australian-based birds ...