You may be familiar with the large, talking green bird known as a parrot. There's another parrot type called parrotlet, which is much smaller than the birds you’re familiar with. Parrotlets can ...

Some, like budgies, may also have stripes on the top of their head, while parrotlets have solid-colored blue or green feathers. Parakeets have smaller beaks with more deeply colored nostrils than ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Green-rumped parrotlets appear to have high instances of both ...

What sets them apart are their horn-colored legs and beaks as well as the natural green color of their bodies. All parrotlet species are dimorphic — meaning you can separate the males from the ...

Jen Greenburg (AKA The Green Bird Brigade on TikTok) is a proud mom to nine birds. One of them, a parrotlet named Talon, doesn't like missing his 8 PM bedtime, and if he does, he goes ahead and ...

Steven Beissinger at the University of California, Berkeley, and Karl Berg at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Brownsville monitored 2,742 nests of the green-rumped parrotlet (Forpus ...

A newly published UC Berkeley-led study compiles nearly 30 years of research and observations of the green-rumped parrotlet, a small South American parrot, and their behavioral patterns of ...