Today the Cape parrot bears the dubious title of Africa’s rarest parrot, with remnant populations spread among three isolated forest patches in the South African provinces of Eastern Cape ...

The endangered golden-shouldered parrot, a technicolor species native to Far North Queensland's Cape York Peninsula, is abandoning areas of grassland it usually nests in because woody plants are ...

South Africa's endangered Cape parrot (Poicephalus robustus) was believed to feed only on a select indigenous forest trees when its staple food, the kernels of Podocarpus and Afrocarpus yellowwood ...

Leah Mavimbela, 61, has never seen the green and gold plumage of the critically endangered Cape Parrot. But her crochet work is helping fund efforts to save the threatened species. Mavimbela, who ...

In support of previous research, the Cape Parrot should be elevated to the species level, according to a new genetic analysis study publish August 12, 2015 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by ...