Free-living red-crowned parrots have been adapting so well to urban life in California, Florida, and Texas that their population numbers may rival those in their native Mexico, says a team of US ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — When thinking of the birds that define San Diego’s beaches, one probably pictures seabirds or seagulls in ...

(NEXSTAR) — The Lone Star State may not be the first place you would think to find wild parrots but one species of parrot has defied the odds to become a native Texan. What’s more, new research shows ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) – U.S. researchers are launching studies on Mexico's red-crowned parrot — a species that has been adapting so well to living in cities in California and Texas after escaping from the ...

It is dusk at Oliveira Park, in Brownsville — the southern most city in Texas. A large, noisy flock of birds with brilliant green plumages and red splotches on their heads is fluttering in from the ...

Red-crowned parrots first arrived in Texas during the 1980s through the illegal pet trade. Species that have adapted to urban environments are typically considered neutral or even invasive. Instead, ...

It began just before dusk, parked in a Harlingen cul-de-sac. We watched from the car as the trees filled with a flock of about 70 pairs, families and larger groups. We watched as they spent the ...

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SAN DIEGO — U.S. researchers are launching studies on Mexico’s red-crowned parrot — a species that has been adapting so well to living in cities in California and Texas after escaping from the pet ...

Let's say you wanted to watch parrots in the wild instead of parrots in a cage. Where would you go? Mexico? No, you wouldn't have to leave Texas. Red-crowned parrots (Amazona viridigenalis) breed in ...

The bird, a nonnative species whose population ballooned in the 1970s and 80s, became emblematic of Temple City, Calif. By Livia Albeck-Ripka Reporting from Los Angeles. For decades, the residents of ...

Red-crowned Parrot https://www.flickr.com/photos/juliom/20457677839/in/photostream/ (Julio Mulero, Flickr) An endangered parrot species is making a home in South ...