City Parrots

University of Florida

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The flamingo looks like it should be closely related to the stork or crane, but its closest relative may actually be the diminutive, modest grebe.

Falcons would seem to have evolved together with hawks and eagles, but the species are not close kin, appearing to have acquired their hawk-like characteristics completely independently from their look-alikes.

The largest group of birds, the passerines — which include such common North American birds as mockingbirds, blue jays and wrens — may be most closely related to a group not common at all in our latitudes: parrots.

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By Dave Dondoneau - Honolulu Advertiser

It’s taken nearly seven months and mounds of paperwork, but Gulliver is finally returning to the United States.

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By Laura Stewart - Daily Herald

Ah - it’s good to be the birthday bird.

Brookfield Zoo’s oldest resident - Cookie, a Major Mitchell’s cockatoo - will celebrate his 75th birthday Saturday with more than a little fanfare.

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Ninemsn

A gang-gang cockatoo has been hailed as the “luckiest bird alive” after it collided and got stuck on a car travelling at 80km/h and escaped serious injury.

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By Geoff Parks - Statesman Journal

Chris Shank helps enrich the lives of owners and parrots

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eFluxMedia By Anna Boyd

A family from Corpus Christi, Texas filed a suit in Nueces County District Court against national pet chain PetSmart after they contracted parrot fever from a diseased cockatiel bought from one of their stores.

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CBSNews.com

Rare Bird Undergoes Radiation To Save Life From Malignant Melanoma On Beak

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Ken Dixon - Connecticut Post

NEW HAVEN A Superior Court judge on Wednesday reluctantly rejected an attempt to stop the United Illuminating Co. from capturing and killing monk parakeets that nest in utility poles near Long Island Sound.

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