A beautiful birdbath is a great way to entice some lovely birds to your yard, but you need to get the right color birdbath.

Tropical birds are well known for their colorful appearance: vibrantly colored macaws, parakeets and parrots are widely considered to be the quintessential birds of this region. The popularity of ...

My first pet was a colorful parakeet named Joey, a comedic little character that used to perch on his toy bicycle with my mother’s help and ride around the kitchen table. Readers who are old enough to ...

My first pet was a colorful parakeet named Joey, a comedic little character that used to perch on his toy bicycle with my mother’s help and ride around the kitchen table. Readers who are old enough to ...

It would be hard not to see one of the inhabitants of the new Bronx Zoo exhibit called Budgie Landing. The exhibit showcases over 1,000 of the colorful birds inside the aviary exhibit space. Budgies ...

The researchers studied the dusky lory (pictured) and the rosy-faced lovebird. Tim Felce (Airwolfhound) via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 Flamingos get their signature pink hue by eating shrimp ...

A team of scientists developed a methodology to map out molecular processes and used that to identify the mysterious yellow pigment gene that parrots use to create their iconic green plumage Many ...

Many brightly colored birds get their pigments from the foods that they eat, but that's not true of parrots. Now, researchers reporting a study of familiar pet store parakeets -- also known as budgies ...