Tremica Wise’s 8th Ward shotgun house is tidy and cool: tile floors gleaming, windows curtained against the heat. She keeps the temperature between 60 and 70 degrees — not for her sake, but for 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 ...

Making new friends has its challenges, even for birds. Researchers at the University of Cincinnati found that monk parakeets ...

Boulder police want the public’s help to identify a pet parakeet that flew into an apartment on Tuesday. The tiny intruder flew into a second-floor apartment before hiding in the couch, according to ...

In case you missed it, Jan. 5 was National Bird Day. It brought to mind one of the Lowcountry’s most beautiful lost treasures: the Carolina parakeet. The only parrot native to the continental United ...