"But they have been foul play, either using a touch of paint or in one case feeding the bird prawns to try and make it pink. Producing a pink budgie is marginally less likely than the Loch Ness ...

At Greenwood Cemetery the yearly blossoming of the vibrant pink trees is also a time for an unusual, local sight — a throng of florescent green monk parakeets, who perch on the branches to enjoy ...

red beak and a pink and black ring around its neck, it can grow to over 40cm. Although originally native to the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, escaped parakeets have been sighted in ...

These rose-ringed parakeets (so named for a subtle pink stripe around male birds’ necks) have since become frequent visitors to Goo’s Kilakila Gardens, where the pests figured out that his rambutan ...

A pink budgie was said by us to be “the ambition of breeders the world over”, and when news broke of the gaily-hued bird, a Bradford fancier immediately offered £300. And Mr Dunham almost let ...

The research, published March 19 in the journal Nature, suggests parrots (and specifically parakeets) could be a model for studying human speech, helping scientists to better understand and treat ...