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CNN by Gary Strieker

VIEDMA, Argentina - Burrowing parrots, which nest in small tunnels of sandstone cliff faces, are common in parts of the Rio Negro Valley of Argentina. Read on…

CNN by Don Knapp

SAN FRANCISCO - The city of San Francisco could end up adopting a flock of several dozen parrots when the birds’ benefactor moves and leaves most of his fine-feathered friends behind. Read on…

by Robert Sanders

The fossilized jaw of a parrot dating from the last days of the dinosaurs is the earliest known fossil of a modern land bird, says Thomas Stidham, a graduate student in the Department of Integrative Biology. The find provides the strongest evidence to date that modern birds evolved long before most scientists thought.

An analysis of the find, excavated from Cretaceous deposits in eastern Wyoming, appeared in the Nov. 5 issue of the British journal Nature.

“This find suggests that by the end of the Cretaceous period, around 65 to 70 million years ago, modern birds were an important group, at least in North America,” said author Stidham. Read on…

Find Articles by Marc Margolis

male Spix’s macaw, South American, mostly blue, last of his kind. Wants female for connubial bliss, nesting. Open to blind dates arranged by scientists and bird collectors. Read on…