For over 60 years, green-feathered Monk parakeets have darted across the Crescent City, squawking from telephone lines and nesting in power poles. Aside from their unique preference for urban nesting, ...

Brooklynites are used to seeing pigeons and the occasional seagull flying through their skies. It may be surprising to hear that the borough also has a significant parrot population. Specifically wild ...

Black-capped chickadees, dark-eyed juncos and cardinals congregate around a backyard feeder as birdseed falls to the grass like sprinkles. Suddenly, from the sky comes a flash of vivid green and blue, ...

Thanks to the enlightening email from Patricia Ladd, the mystery as to what is clinging to one of the water tower legs at the corner of Durant and Coy streets has been solved. It’s a huge vertical ...

In many urban areas across the U.S. and abroad, feral, non-native parrots have become established. This is true in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, where a colony of lime green monk parakeets have ...

This is DAY TO DAY. I'm Alex Chadwick. In Connecticut, bird lovers are crying `fowl' over the fate of an exotic species. The group Friends of Animals considers the monk parakeet to be intelligent and ...

Spotted a flash of green in the Houston suburbs? It might have been a monk parakeet, an invasive species that has been flying around in Texas for nearly 50 years. Here's what you should know about our ...

MADRID (Fox News) - Madrid’s city council on Monday announced plans to rid the Spanish capital of thousands of invasive parakeets through “ethical culling” and sterilization of eggs. Monk parakeets, ...

CODY - Pete is a good boy, and he is usually the first to tell anyone that. In fact, he was loudly proclaiming his goodness when the authorities carted him off to face an uncertain future, possibly ...