Portrait of a Red-crowned Amazon (Amazona viridigenalis), also known as Green-cheeked Amazon, Red-headed Parrot, or Mexican Red-headed Parrot. (Credit: Leonhard F/CC BY-SA 3.0.) ...

There are a couple of prevailing theories of where the city's red-crowned amazon population came from. How the parrot got its ...

In 1994, the red-crowned parrot’s wild population was estimated to number somewhere between 2,000 and 4,300 adults, leading the IUCN red list to classify this species as globally endangered.

On a summer Friday evening in Brownsville ’s Joe & Tony Oliveira Park, a pandemonium of squawking parrots is charming enough to cause children playing with tablets to look away from their screens.

A parrot sits on an apartment roof in San Diego. in March 2016. U.S. researchers are launching studies on Mexico’s red crowned parrot - a species that has been adapting so well to living in ...

Red-crowned parrots, whose home range is restricted to the lowlands of northeast Mexico, were first recorded in the Los Angeles area in 1963. Since then, the population has swelled to more than ...

You may have seen them streaking through our skies or hanging from our trees – the green and red colors of the feral Mexican parrot in the southland. L.A. Times’s Louis Sahagún has written ...

Many species of parrots are known to wander or migrate throughout large areas. Post-breeding red-crowns from Tamaulipas, Mexico, probably began wandering more frequently into South Texas as the ...

Red-crowned parrots, whose home range is restricted to the lowlands of northeast Mexico, were first recorded in the Los Angeles area in 1963. Since then, the population has swelled to more than ...