The newly identified Blue-winged Amazon parrot has a loud, short call and evolved from the White-fronted parrot quite recently, about 120,000 years ago. In 2014, during a visit to a remote part of the ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The term parrot encompasses many bird species. A group given the scientific name Amazona includes about 30 species of ...

June 27 (UPI) --Scientists have identified a new parrot species living on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Researchers believed the blue-winged Amazon parrot diverged from its closest relative, the ...

Parrots are famously talkative, and a blue-fronted Amazon parrot named Moises -- or at least its genome -- is telling scientists volumes about the longevity and highly developed cognitive abilities ...

The blue-fronted Amazon parrot lives up to 66 years in the wild. Deni Williams via Wikicommons under CC BY-SA 2.0 license Deni Williams In general, a bird’s lifespan tends to correlate with its size.

The newly identified Blue-winged Amazon parrot has a loud, short call and evolved from the White-fronted parrot quite recently, about 120,000 years ago. In 2014, during a visit to a remote part of the ...

In 2014, during a visit to a remote part of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, an ornithologist came across parrots with a completely different color pattern from other known species. A new study names ...