Tag: Parrots

The movie is about a flock of parrots that mysteriously settle in San Francisco and change the life of a homeless man. How the birds ended up in San Francisco is a story in itself; according to one rumor, someone who was tired of taking care of these birds set them free, and it is not hard to und...

Arrays of pearl millets lined up the fields, gently swaying in the intermittent dashes of breeze. Pearl millet, also known as Bajra locally, is a superfood. The fields were ripe and ready for harvest, but the good samaritan who owned the farm didn’t harvest the fields. He leaves the fi...

Astudy that I previously shared with you indicated that Indigenous people started breeding parrots in captivity more than 1000 years ago (more here). That study found evidence that macaws lived in Chaco Canyon in New Mexico — far north of the species’ historical Neotropical ranges i...

Acouple years ago, I shared with you a scientific report that Australia’s nocturnal night parrot, Pezoporus occidentalis, cannot see well at night (more here). If this parrot can’t see well, how does it manage to remain so elusive? The secretive night parrot lives in th...

“I spend a lot of time thinking about male and female vocalizations in songbirds, so I first approached parrots from that point of view”, study co-author, Lauryn Benedict, a Professor and Associate Director of UNC’s School of Biological Sciences at the University of Northern C...

Ancient parrot bones are relatively common finds in archaeological sites in the American Southwest. Many have been identified as coming from scarlet macaws, Ara macao, whose geographic distribution today includes tropical rainforests and savannahs in the southern portions of Mexico and througho...

Ancient parrot bones are relatively common finds in archaeological sites in the American Southwest. Many have been identified as coming from scarlet macaws, Ara macao, whose geographic distribution today includes tropical rainforests and savannahs in the southern portions of Mexico and througho...