Famous for their remarkable ability to mimic human speech, the African grey parrot is now facing a grim future. Their existence in the wild is threatened as poachers illegally traffic them to ...

The population of wild African Grey Parrots once numbered in the millions, but has now plummeted to around 100,000. In some countries, such as Togo and Ghana, the species is already considered ...

Many of these birds have been captured from the wild, torn from their natural habitats in West Africa and subjected to the stress and trauma of captivity. African grey parrots are Africa’s ...

To continue selling birds abroad, breeders must now prove to CITES inspectors that their African grays are raised in captivity, not caught in the wild. Most captive-born chicks have a permanent ID ...

They do this in place of the specialized familial flock calls they would have in the wild. African Grey Parrots kept in large groups in captivity form their own “language” of calls.

A wildly brazen thief snatched a coveted African Grey parrot from a New Jersey bird store in a caught-on-camera daylight sortie that stunned the store’s owner and left her terrified for the ...

Police are seeking the public’s help in locating an African grey parrot valued at $7,000 that was stolen Thursday from an exotic bird shop on Route 46 east in Bergen County. According to ...

Parrots have been kept as pets since the time of the pharaohs and remain popular pets today, with an estimated 40,000 pet African Grey Parrots in the UK. They’re among the most intelligent ...