Cynthia Gill's bird barn is hallowed ground. Strangers aren't allowed inside, and she only visits to feed and check on her 97 birds when she absolutely needs to. Because breeding birds is tricky ...

Trying to describe an adult macaw could consume a dictionary of adjectives–exotic, colorful, intelligent, powerful, not to mention loud when in full squawk. But macaw breeder Charlie Hume’s favorite ...

Elaine Bernstein wants a bird in her hand. But bird breeder Jim Jones says you just can’t rush mother nature. On Tuesday, a Palm Beach County judge tried to smooth ruffled feathers by requiring Jones ...

A previous study that I shared with you indicated that Indigenous people started breeding parrots in captivity more than 1000 years ago (more here). That study found evidence that macaws lived in ...

“If these chickens could vote, they’d want to be here, not at Foster Farms,” Arlin Strange says as a few hundred members of the putative electorate mill about his feet. “Here they’re guaranteed two ...

A century or more before the Spanish set foot in the Americas, birds of a multi-hued feather were bred together in what’s now a desolate part of northwestern Mexico. That, at least, is the implication ...

Twenty years after the species was officially declared extinct in nature, 52 Spix’s macaws (Cyanopsitta spixii) arrived in Brazil’s Bahia state for eventual reintroduction back into their native ...