Among the cadre of birds that dart along the tree line bordering the Great Western Trail near Lombard is a green-plumed flock ...

Monk parakeets in big colonies developed voice accents and made a greater variety of sounds, possibly to handle communal ...

DALLAS – Austin has become well known for the colony of bats that live under a downtown bridge. But Dallas’ White Rock Lake is home to a population of parakeets that - in one sense - remain a mystery ...

Monk parakeets have been flapping around Houston for around 50 years. Having logged just 20 years in the city myself, I feel some reticence calling them an invasive species. Yet, technically, the monk ...