To begin deciphering the subtleties of wild Amazon Parrot duetting, Professor Dahlin and collaborators conducted more than three years of field work to record the warble duets sung by mated pairs of ...

If you visit Peru, you may be lucky enough to witness one of nature’s most colorful spectacles: hundreds of parrots of up to 18 species congregating on the clay cliffs -- known as clay licks -- ...

Learn how wild parrots follow language-like syntax and structured vocal rules during territorial duets.

Warble duets seem linked to active territory defense. Physical fights in the wild were always preceded by warble duets. Playback experiments also showed that parrots increased warble duets when ...

Wild yellow-naped amazon parrots in Costa Rica produce structured vocal duets that follow rule-governed sequences strikingly similar to the syntax found in human language, according to new research ...

With a few minutes of searching, anyone can find videos online of chatty birds: macaws talk to their keepers, cockatoos sing to the camera, corvids mimic the jarring sounds of construction sites.

JAMULJAMUL — A wild Amazon parrot shot with a pellet gun in Lakeside late last month is recovering at a parrot rescue sanctuary in Jamul along with two other birds shot in the county within the last ...