Like some now-ubiquitous celebrity who seems in retrospect to have always been around (think the cast of Seinfeld), I can’t remember the first time I ever laid eyes on a monk parakeet in the Texas ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black-capped chickadees, dark-eyed juncos and cardinals congregate around a backyard feeder as birdseed falls to the grass like ...

Highly intelligent and gregarious, the monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) or monk parrot is a fantastic little bird to keep as a pet. Getting about 11-inches when fully grown and having a much more ...

Bird lovers say they're friendly and intelligent — but a Connecticut power utility calls them a nuisance, and it's rounding them up to kill them. Tandaleya Wilder of member station WSHU reports on the ...

Monk parakeets have been flapping around Houston for around 50 years. Having logged just 20 years in the city myself, I feel some reticence calling them an invasive species. Yet, technically, the monk ...

Their squawk sounds like thumbtacks going down a trash disposal. Their habit of nesting on power lines causes blackouts and millions of dollars in damage. Yet the monk parakeets that have colonized ...

CHICAGO — At a quiet street intersection in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, the imposing figure of a pine tree is only outweighed by the massive collection of sticks and twigs carefully placed on ...

Monk parakeets have been around the Houston area for more than 30 years, but many people are still surprised when they see a flock of the bright-green birds in their neighborhood. Perhaps it's that we ...

CHICAGO -- At a quiet street intersection in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, the imposing figure of a pine tree is only outweighed by the massive collection of sticks and twigs carefully placed on ...