To know what a tropical bird is, you first have to know where the tropics are. The tropics form a band around the equator, ...

People doing bird surveys in Florida confront the immigration issue in a different way than politicians. Florida's subtropical climate allows many exotic bird species to survive.

Valerie Sinex, owner of Wild Birds Unlimited in Yorba Linda, noticed a recent increase in customer sightings of exotic black and white birds with exceptionally long tails and bright red-orange bills.

Whether this parrot species is biofluorescent is unknown for now, but it might be a good species to test the researchers’ hypothesis. Royal Society Open Science, 2025. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.241905 ...

ATLANTA (CN) — An 11th Circuit panel on Friday affirmed the government's dismissal of petitions from breeders seeking to import more exotic bird species into the U.S. In 2021, a group of aviculturist ...

How Escaped Exotic Pet Birds Could Help Save Threatened Species Though usually seen as a threat to local populations, these escapees could also help in the recovery of creatures in trouble ...

A new bird species, named rayadito subantartico, has been identified by scientists on the Diego Ramirez Archipelago on the tip of South America, off the coast of Chile, a report in Nature says.

Many of the birds represented in the Nazca Lines in southern Peru are exotic species, including hermits, pelicans and what appears to be a juvenile parrot, scientists have said.

Attorney Astrid Stuth Cevallos argued that when adding species to the approved list, the service must consider a global, species-wide analysis of trade in both wild-caught and captive-bred specimens ...

A federal appeals court has clipped the wings of some exotic bird lovers who sought to import two species of parrots. In an illuminating visit to the rarefied realms of the Wild Exotic Bird ...