Some peculiar parrots in Australia might be using pungent plants to get high. These bizarre birds, named Norfolk Island green parrots, were spotted rubbing chewed-up plants to their feathers, ...

Many Australians discovered the country’s extraordinary birds during COVID. They’d always been there, but it seems we were ...

An elusive, nocturnal parrot disappeared for more than a century. An unlikely rediscovery led to ornithological scandal — and then hope. By Anthony Ham There had been no confirmed sightings of a live ...

Scientists have discovered the latest fad sweeping across the sulphur-crested cockatoo parrots of Sydney, Australia: lifting up trash can lids to score a snack. In a new study this week, they detail ...

Australia’s Indigenous rangers have helped discover a previously unknown population of the night parrot – one of the rarest birds in the continent thought to have been extinct for over a century. A ...

The chances are you have seen a parrot and you might also have heard one, too. But have you ever heard of a night parrot? The critically endangered species is one of the rarest birds in Australia and ...

These garbage-loving cockatoos have taught each other how to break into bins, to the annoyance of residents and the delight of scientists. Reading time 2 minutes Welcome to the first installment of ...

Wild cockatoos in Sydney, Australia have learned to drink from twist-handle water fountains, turning the knob with their feet and using their body weight to keep it open. They even queue to have a ...

Australia's most elusive bird, the Night Parrot, may not be much better at seeing in the dark than other parrots active during the day. New research reveals that the critically endangered parrot's ...