Wendy Albright (@ theparrotlady) explains that her beautiful bird is a strong flyer, but when it’s time for a bath, she doesn ...

An album consisting of the sounds of endangered Australian birds has made its way to the top of the country's music charts after a heavy push on social media. "Songs of Disappearance" was released Dec ...

All air-breathing vertebrates have a larynx—a structure of muscles and folds that protects the trachea and, in many animals, vibrates and modulates to produce a stunning array of sounds. But birds, ...

This week's Question comes from John Carty in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He asks: Some species of parrots are able to very precisely imitate a wide variety of the sounds they hear around them, from ...

Alex the grey parrot, who famously asked “what color?” when looking in the mirror, had astonishing abilities to mimic human speech. Interest in the ability of animals to learn sounds dates back ...

They wouldn’t blow away the competition on “Dancing with the Stars,” but it turns out that some birds got rhythm. After studying a cockatoo that grooves to the Backstreet Boys and about 1,000 YouTube ...