RIO DE JANEIRO – The list of Amazon bird species facing danger of extinction has risen sharply because their rainforest habitat is being slashed to make room for cattle ranching and agriculture, a ...

On a summer Friday evening in Brownsville’s Joe & Tony Oliveira Park, a pandemonium of squawking parrots is charming enough to cause children playing with tablets to look away from their screens.

Amazon parrots are the birds found in Neotropical Americas, they are mostly green in colour with contrasting body parts such as yellow, blue, yellow or red and have curved beaks and short, blunt tails ...

In the heart of the Amazon, where pristine rainforest remains largely untouched by humans, birds are shrinking. For about four decades, researchers collected and measured 77 species of birds at forest ...

Recent research is indicating that a mere 1° C (or 1.8° F) increase in average dry season temperatures locally could mean a 63% drop in some Amazonian bird populations, according to a mid-May report ...

A recent study analyzed the behavior of birds that feed on insects in parts of the Amazon that have not yet been altered by human activity. Of the 29 species studied, 24 have gone through a reduction ...