The ability to learn by watching others interact had previously only been documented in humans, making macaws just the second species to demonstrate this ability (humans being the first). A captive ...

Some birds will empty your wallet faster than they flap their wings. These species are treated like investments or status symbols, with some even kept in families for generations.

Can a species bounce back from being 'extinct in the wild'? The blue-winged macaw is showing how it can be done.

Q. While traveling through southern Florida, we saw a flock of green birds that looked like parrots. What could they have been? Aren’t parrots restricted to the tropics of South America and Africa? A.