The bare-throated bellbird and the red-legged seriema can produce sounds at amplitudes that exceed 120 decibels, which puts ...

Poor Ruby, the Eclectus Parrot, has been feeling a little under the weather, and during a recent trip to the vet, she had more than one reason to feel that way. During the exam, the veterinarian said, ...

Bigger bodies and wider beaks help birds like the bare-throated bellbird belt out calls louder than a jackhammer, but why ...

A new study has identified two species of Brazilian birds, the bare-throated bellbird and the red-legged seriema, as the ...

New research measures the loudest birds known to science, with three South American species topping the chart.

Two new contenders for the title of world’s loudest bird are flocking into the record books—the bare-throated bellbird ...

University of Massachusetts Amherst's Jeff Podos and his former graduate student João C.T. Menezes have identified two ...

Biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have discovered what may be the world’s loudest birds. There are now ...

Critically endangered New Zealand bird enjoys record breeding season triggered by mass fruiting of native tree, pushing its numbers to 325 The population of the world’s heaviest parrot, the kākāpō, ...

There’s been a baby boom among one of the world’s most endangered parrot species — and officials in New Zealand are squawking about it. A record 90 chicks have been added to the count of the ...

Parrots may be doing more than just repeating words—they may actually use names. By analyzing hundreds of recordings from pet parrots, researchers found evidence that many birds use specific names to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image via Shutterstock/Sanit Fuangnakhon Did you know that birds make unique sounds for different situations? In the wild, it ...