The blue-fronted Amazon parrot lives up to 66 years in the wild. Deni Williams via Wikicommons under CC BY-SA 2.0 license Deni Williams In general, a bird’s lifespan tends to correlate with its size.

Talkative and intelligent, parrots are some of the most fascinating birds on the planet. They are known to speak many different words, and are usually very entertaining to have in your home. But how ...

A genome analysis of traits in parrots and 26 other bird species revealed that parrots and other long-lived birds share high rates of conserved mutations in genes responsible for supporting an ...

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