You may be familiar with the large, talking green bird known as a parrot. There's another parrot type called parrotlet, which is much smaller than the birds you’re familiar with. Parrotlets can also ...

An ascending, 75 cm flight made by a parrotlet, snapshot shown at the start of each downstroke and when it folded in its wings to bound mid-flight. This material relates to a paper that appeared in ...

Parrotlets may be tiny, but they have big personalities and active minds that need daily stimulation. From interactive toys to social bonding, the right activities keep them engaged and healthy. With ...

When it comes to hopping between branches, tiny parrots try only as hard as they need to. The finding comes from high-speed video taken to measure how Pacific parrotlets (Forpus coelestis) shift ...

image: Front and side view showing how parrotlets assist and extend their long jumps with small "proto-wingbeats," which bird ancestors may have used to develop their foraging flight capabilities.