Source: Barloventomagico, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. In a new study, researchers report that baby parrots in the wild quietly babble to themselves in their nests. The ...

A green-rumpled parrotlet widow and her nestlings. The behavior of the nestlings — spilling out of the cavity begging for food — indicates that they aren't getting enough food. A team of University of ...

Jen Greenburg, also known as The Green Bird Brigade on her social media channels, is a proud mom to many rescued birds. One of them, a parrotlet named Talon, takes his 8 p.m. bedtime very seriously.

A newly published UC Berkeley-led study compiles nearly 30 years of research and observations of the green-rumped parrotlet, a small South American parrot, and their behavioral patterns of infanticide ...

One tiny parrotlet species stops at nothing to pass down its genes, even if that requires it to kill a new mate’s chicks right in the nest 1. Steven Beissinger at the University of California, ...

Hopkin: Even sweeter are the sounds they make when they’re just beginning to explore their vocal capabilities. [CLIP: Baby babbling] Hopkin: But human babies are not unique—at least when it comes to ...

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