The African grey parrot is endangered and it is illegal to sell them Row after row of thin barred cages hold brilliantly coloured birds whose screeches fill the air with a deafening noise.

Across a street that serves as a buffer between the bustling market and the peaceful residential homes, a more clandestine trade exists -- trade in African grey parrots. Within the confines of ...

By Carolyn Cowan Chinese authorities are considering changes to wildlife trade regulations that govern the live trade in 18 ...

The African grey parrots were adopted by the Lincolnshire Wildlife Park in Friskney in August and placed in quarantine together. However, after being moved into the main outdoor aviaries the birds ...

In 2016, in response to increasing threats to the African grey parrot from the international pet trade and habitat loss in West and Central Africa, parties to the Convention on International Trade in ...

We focused on 16 threatened parrot species that are heavily traded or which have declined because they were unsustainably traded. Two of these species – the grey parrot and black-cheeked ...

The Head of the Soekarno-Hatta Airport Customs Office, Gatot Sugeng Wibowo, stated that Syed smuggled four protected animals, two langurs (Trachypithecus auratus), one Ambonese King Parrot ...

The hub of the trade is South Africa, which exports more African grays than any other country. Historically most orders came from the United States and Europe, but fear of bird flu and laws ...

We'll also see how one South American town is grappling with an invasion of parrots, while another region on the continent found an innovative insect solution to its trash problem. And we take a ...

GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Thick-billed parrots, Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha, are an enigma. Despite their ecological and cultural importance, especially to ...

Unlike other birds, which get pigments from their diets, parrots produce their own—but scientists never fully understood the underlying mechanisms, until now Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent The ...

Two parrots that went missing from London Zoo have been found together 60 miles away after being spotted in a Cambridgeshire garden. Critically endangered blue-throated macaws Lily and Margot flew ...