Every year, thousands of parrots confiscated from the illegal wildlife trade arrive at rehabilitation centers across Latin ...

An expert explains how scientists study birds’ ‘language’, and why it is important to do so, and why you should care about ...

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

A U.S. scientist who used artificial intelligence (AI) to interpret the meaning of birdsong has received a prize of 100,000 ...

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A parrot missing half his beak is top bird at New Zealand’s Willowbank Wildlife Reserve. The parrot, named Bruce, wins every fight with other kea parrots and gets priority access to food, researchers ...

Bruce the kea—a species of alpine parrot native to New Zealand—lost his upper beak in an accident as a young bird. But that hasn’t stopped him from becoming the dominant male in his kea community ...

While the kea parrot’s beak would normally be considered essential for survival, Bruce has innovated other ways of commanding respect. Bruce the kea parrot lost his upper beak, but his disability hasn ...

Bruce the Kea parrot is missing the upper half of his beak, but he has turned this disability into a weapon to keep subordinates in line There’s an Internet parable in which a boy with one arm becomes ...

Forget the cartoon dog collars and sci-fi translators. The real science of understanding animal communication is advancing faster than most people realize, and AI is the driving force behind the shift ...