Baby owls—five of them, bedraggled and bug-eyed, unused to the light. Almost immediately, one jumped onto the lip of my ...

observed the birds’ behavior in 2014 in Amsterdam, where she lives. “The poor warbler almost disappears in the wide-opened mouth of its ‘adopted’ baby,” Slothouber says. And yet “the ...

Birds by Joe is an exotic bird store specializing in hand-raised baby parrots, including African greys, Amazons, caiques, conures, Pionus, cape parrots, cockatoos and macaws, its website says.

Breeders and pet stores falsely market these hand-reared birds as friendlier and better able to bond with humans as a result of early exposure. However, removing a fledgling from his or her parents is ...

To those who think parrots are only capable of mindless mimicry ... Recognizing that the child was in distress, Willie began flapping his wings hysterically, squawking, “Mama baby! Mama baby!” ...