You may be familiar with the large, talking green bird known as a parrot. There's another parrot type called parrotlet, which is much smaller than the birds you’re familiar with. Parrotlets can also ...

Before learning to speak, human babies go through a vocal stage known as babbling, which is a well documented part of the vocal language acquisition process. Basically, babbling is how an animal ...

Pacific parrotlets are highly popular among bird owners. While they have a strong voice, they can't scream or talk as well as other bigger parrot species. Thanks to their quiet nature and smaller size ...

Scientists at Stanford University have trained a Parrotlet called Obi to wear some pretty rad goggles and fly through laser sheets in an effort to test models that predict the lift generated by flying ...

A green-rumpled parrotlet widow and her nestlings. The behavior of the nestlings — spilling out of the cavity begging for food — indicates that they aren't getting enough food. A team of University of ...

Equipped with a tiny pair of goggles, Obi the parrotlet is braving haze and lasers to help researchers learn what happens when a bird flaps its wings. Researchers have long known how planes fly and ...

A newly published UC Berkeley-led study compiles nearly 30 years of research and observations of the green-rumped parrotlet, a small South American parrot, and their behavioral patterns of infanticide ...

Jen Greenburg (AKA The Green Bird Brigade on TikTok) is a proud mom to nine birds. One of them, a parrotlet named Talon, doesn't like missing his 8 PM bedtime, and if he does, he goes ahead and puts ...