Aly Lopez was a writer on the sleep and wellness team at CNET. She tested, researched and reviewed sleep and health-related products, technology and trends. She received her bachelor's degree in ...

I’m seeing a ton of smart bird feeders again this year at CES — and I’m inexplicably drawn to them. Perhaps because the idea of birds nibbling on seeds and flying away represents a natural purity and ...

More than 2,000 birds have “graduated” from Parrot Kindergarten. A new documentary traces Jen Taylor-O’Connor’s journey to help bird parents teach them to play games, learn letters, even read. Parrots ...

When the Christmas music begins in earnest in late November, it's easy for it to go in one ear and out the other. After all, we've heard these songs hundreds, if not thousands, of times over the ...

When the world slowed down during the COVID-19 pandemic, its effects extended beyond humans. A recent study found that it reshaped urban ecosystems to such an extent that certain city-dwelling birds ...

Animals have a way of surprising us in ways we didn't expect. Even vocal birds, who are capable of saying all kinds of things, might pull something out of nowhere that stops you in your tracks. As a ...

Since late 2021, a panzootic, or "a pandemic in animals," of highly pathogenic bird flu variant H5N1 has devastated wild birds, agriculture, and mammals. Unlike previous outbreaks, aggressive culling ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza continues to spread through commercial and backyard flocks of birds, with Idaho, Oregon and California seeing new cases since mid-October. In Sonoma County, ...

The clip shows a scarlet macaw parrot watching a woman cut into a cake that looks a lot like the red bird parrot_mimzo/TikTok A video of a scarlet macaw reacting to a woman cutting a parrot cake has ...

A parrot's squawking reaction to watching a realistic macaw cake get cut is captivating social media users, but is the footage real? The clip, posted Oct. 23 by TikTok account @parrot_mimzo, has over ...

The night parrot is a beautiful green and yellow bird native to Australia. These birds are nocturnal, nesting on the ground and favoring desert environments. The night parrot is extremely lightweight ...