A Berlin-area animal shelter has struggled to find homes for some 1,500 small birds hoarded by one man in his small apartment. "Unfortunately this isn't an isolated situation," says one official, ...
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 ...
Jan. 2—Austin Middle School sixth-grader Nathan Roman needed a miracle after his blue female parakeet Azul flew away and disappeared in early December. Ten days before Christmas, he got one. The ...
The monk parakeets that have invaded Europe and North America over the last 40-50 years fortifying their massive communal nests atop utility poles in many urban areas appear to have originated from ...
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 ...
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 ...
The power of social media was on full display for a Mobile pet shop after a woman walked out of the store with a $1,000 bird stuffed in her purse. The incident happened Sunday at the B&B Pet Shop on ...