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Pet birds such as Budgies and Cockatiel are gentle and friendly, making them great choices for those with limited bird experience.

The parakeets commonly kept as pets could offer fresh clues about vocal learning and potential treatments for speech ...

Parrots have always been known for their knack for mimicry, but new research suggests they may have more in common with ...

Brain activity in vocalizing budgerigar parrots showed a pattern that harkened to those found in the brains of people.

New research reveals that parrots produce speech using brain structures remarkably similar to those in humans.

The ability of parrots to mimic human speech has long fascinated people, but a new study reveals that their gift of gab goes ...

Published online March 19 in the journal Nature, the study mapped the activity of a group of nerve cells in the bird's brain called the central nucleus of the anterior arcopallium (AAC), which is ...

These birds have neurons that are activated when they produce specific vocalizations, similar to how neurons are activated in ...

The study relied on electrodes placed in the brains of parrots and songbirds and tracked the behavior of neurons in a region that controls vocalization. It showed that the two relied on different ...

A new study explains how a parakeet's brain helps it to mimic human words.By recording for the first time the brain activity of parakeets as they made ...