Researchers in New Zealand documented an injured kea at Willowbank Wildlife Reserve attaining alpha status through a self-invented jousting technique, highlighting behavioral innovation and welfare ...

A palm cockatoo named Huizai -- Chinese for Grey Boy -- has gotten a new lease on life, thanks to the wonders of technology. The parrot who lives in a Nanjing zoo in Jiangsu, China, was on the verge ...

Researchers noted that the bird had priority access to feeders, and he was the only male groomed by other males.

While the kea parrot’s beak would normally be considered essential for survival, Bruce has innovated other ways of commanding respect.

At the Willowbank Wildlife Reserve in New Zealand, the large aviary’s lush canopy of trees casts dappled sunlight over the ...

Without a curvy upper beak to get in the way, Bruce the kea uses his lower beak to stab or joust at other birds in his social ...

There’s brachiating, where a primate swings from perch to perch using its arms, and now there’s beakiating, where a parrot swings along the underside of a twig using their feet and beak A Peach-faced ...

Bruce the Kea parrot is missing the upper half of his beak, but he has turned this disability into a weapon to keep subordinates in line There’s an Internet parable in which a boy with one arm becomes ...

A new study has shed some new light on how the beaks of birds have adapted over time. A study, led by the University of Bristol, has shed some new light on how the beaks of birds have adapted over ...