The Yellow-crowned Amazon (Amazona ochrocephala) is a species of parrot native to tropical South America and Panama. It has a yellow head, a short squarish tail and primarily green plumage. It has red ...

PThere are many colorful birds in the world but yellow parrots stand out like golden sunshine in the sky as their beauty is so bright that when people first see them many think they are painted and ...

The San Francisco Zoo and Gardens recently announced the arrival of 12-week-old yellow-crowned Amazon parrot chicks, who will stay behind the scenes at the California zoo until they are older Three ...

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, a couple of birds with exotic tastes had an interspecies tryst. Now, a Canadian-led team of scientists has confirmed their descendants are a new species that arose ...

It's not every parrot that has outlived its first owner, can sing opera and has been honored at a birthday party celebrating its 60th birthday. Elizabeth, a Yellow-crowned Amazon, was hatched in 1954.

A singing parrot has been causing a stir at a wildlife park by belting out Beyonce's If I Were A Boy. Crowds are defying social distancing measures at Lincolnshire Wildlife Park to get a glimpse of ...

Four Yellow-Crowned Amazon parrots were found dead at the Jackson Zoo, likely killed by a mink. The zoo received a USDA citation for not having daily observation of prairie dogs, who had burrowed ...

A parrot who went viral singing Beyoncé's If I Were A Boy 'saved his performance' of the song until he had an audience because there were no guests to entertain during the pandemic, his owner has ...

Three parrots have moved into the San Francisco Zoo and Gardens after the trio was smuggled into the United States. On Monday, the California zoo announced that it took in three 12-week-old ...

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