When we think of parrots mimicking sounds, we usually picture a pet bird shouting “hello,” barking like a dog, or copying a ...

A green-rumped parrotlet (Forpus passerinus), widow and her nestlings. When the nestlings spill out of the nest cavity begging for food as these chicks are, this indicates that they aren't getting ...

You may be familiar with the large, talking green bird known as a parrot. There's another parrot type called parrotlet, which is much smaller than the birds you’re familiar with. Parrotlets can also ...

A newly published UC Berkeley-led study compiles nearly 30 years of research and observations of the green-rumped parrotlet, a small South American parrot, and their behavioral patterns of infanticide ...

A green-rumpled parrotlet widow and her nestlings. The behavior of the nestlings — spilling out of the cavity begging for food — indicates that they aren't getting enough food. A team of University of ...

People who live with parrots know that they can mimic their human care-givers as well as many of the common sounds in their environment. Although such mimicry is delightful, it does raise the question ...

Before learning to speak, human babies go through a vocal stage known as babbling, which is a well documented part of the vocal language acquisition process. Basically, babbling is how an animal ...

Recent studies in both captive parrots and wild green-rumped parrotlets indicate that some species use individualized calls to distinguish specific individuals. Captive birds often mimic human-given ...

One tiny parrotlet species stops at nothing to pass down its genes, even if that requires it to kill a new mate’s chicks right in the nest 1. Steven Beissinger at the University of California, ...