Spotted a flash of green in the Houston suburbs? It might have been a monk parakeet, an invasive species that has been flying ...

Monk parakeets have been flapping around Houston for around 50 years. Having logged just 20 years in the city myself, I feel some reticence calling them an invasive species. Yet, technically ...

London, Berlin, Amsterdam or Seville... in the four corners of Europe, you may be surprised to see green parakeets whose ...

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 ...

A native green parrot in the eastern United States? Parrots are supposed to decorate palm trees in the tropics not the cypress of temperate forests. Yet there are 19th-century accounts of North ...

Next to a fenced-off area, about 20 people are feeding a noisy group of parakeets. The exotic, emerald-green birds with lipstick-red beaks are used to the attention. They swoop down, unafraid ...

SO NOW WE’VE BEEN SELECTED BY THIS, THIS PARAKEET TO BE ITS NEW, AT LEAST FOSTER PARENTS FOR THE TIME BEING. MY PARTNER CAME ACROSS THIS YELLOW AND GREEN PARAKEET OUTSIDE IN LEBANON TODAY.