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A Kentucky Trooper Picked Up A Grounded Bald Eagle Near Corbin And Came Back A Month Later

August 25, 2026 by Alice Wender
Close-up of an immature bald eagle with a dark brown head, pale yellow gape and a dark hooked bill, against blurred sunlit foliage.

A grounded juvenile bald eagle near Corbin, a trooper who drove it to a raptor refuge in Somerset, and the thirty-one days between rescue and release.

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Can Cockatiels Eat Watermelon? What the Numbers Say

August 25, 2026 by Alice Wender
Can cockatiels eat watermelon: a gray cockatiel with a yellow crest and orange cheek patch stands next to a white dish of red watermelon cubes on a wooden table.

Can cockatiels eat watermelon? Yes, but it is 91% water with more phosphorus than calcium. The portion that fits the diet, and the two-hour serving rule.

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Penn State Finds Early Exercise Makes Adult Birds Move Easier

August 25, 2026 by Alice Wender
A helmeted guineafowl walking across dry pale ground, mid-stride with one foot lifted, its bare blue and red head and bony casque in profile and its grey plumage covered in fine white spots.

Guinea fowl that carried leg weights while growing later moved with no extra energy cost. Birds raised without weights spent 23% more on the same walk.

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Why Is My Bird Losing Feathers? How Vets Narrow It Down

August 22, 2026 by Alice Wender
A grey cockatiel with a raised crest and orange cheek patch perched on a wooden branch by a window, showing the thin, partly bare patch on its chest that makes owners ask why is my bird losing feathers.

Why is my bird losing feathers has three answers, and vets split them with one question. The tests that rule out disease before anyone says boredom.

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A Tennessee Parrot Screamed A Word He Had Never Said Before And Only Three Of Them Got Out

August 21, 2026 by Alice Wender
Close-up profile of a green parrot with its beak wide open, calling, against a blurred green background.

The Kleins were asleep in their Lebanon home when the bird in the cage started hollering a word Barbara says she had never once heard him use.

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Parrot Molting: How Long It Takes and When to Worry

August 21, 2026August 21, 2026 by Alice Wender
A blue-and-gold macaw mid parrot molting, one wing open showing uneven flight feathers, loose feathers on the floor below its stand.

Parrot molting runs disproportionately longer in big birds, and the reason is measurable. Plus the feather test that separates a molt from plucking.

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Australia Will Vaccinate Captive Native Birds Against H5 Bird Flu

August 21, 2026 by Alice Wender
A greater crested tern flying head-on with a small fish held crosswise in its yellow bill, showing its black cap and long slender white wings against a dark blurred background.

Priority native species in captivity are first in line, and pet birds are not on the list. What Australian keepers should change, and what to report.

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A Budgie Survived Eleven Weeks Of Winnipeg Winter With A Sparrow Flock And Came Back Changed

August 20, 2026 by Alice Wender
A green budgerigar with a yellow face, black scalloped barring on its head and wings, a violet cheek patch and black throat spots, perched against a pale wall.

Loose in Winnipeg since October, a green budgie survived by living with house sparrows. What he learned from them made him hard to bring home.

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How Do Parrots Talk Like Humans? Syrinx, Tongue and Brain

August 20, 2026 by Alice Wender
An African grey parrot on a wooden T-perch with its beak slightly open, showing the scalloped grey chest, white face patch and scarlet tail, illustrating how parrots talk like humans.

Three separate pieces of research explain parrot speech: a paired sound organ, a tongue that shapes vowels, and a brain layer no other bird has.

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A Los Angeles Psychologist Put Parrots On VA Land And The Birds Reached Veterans She Could Not

August 19, 2026 by Alice Wender
A grey parrot with a pale bare face, black beak and scalloped grey chest perched on a metal rail above netting, its scarlet tail hanging below.

A psychologist built a parrot sanctuary on the West Los Angeles VA campus. What the birds did for the veterans who care for them surprised her.

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