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“It’s easier than pulling out a hair from your chin,” says Kristen Ruegg, an assistant professor of biology at Colorado State University. Ruegg is a director at the Bird Genoscape Project, which ...

Before and after Jasmine stopped plucking. Some feathers will never grow back, unfortunately. Visit Relievet.com to see more photos. Jasmine the Cockatoo is Transformed to a New Bird Thanks to ...

As I prepared a talk on avian behavior for some student groups at the vet school, I realized I haven’t written much at all on behavior problems in parrots and other pet birds in this column. So today ...

Sitting in the sunlit garden room, a small, light green parakeet gently climbs onto the outstretched finger of Gabe Cooper. Mr. Pickles, he’s called. The little bird is known at the facility for ...

A Fork-tailed Flycatcher. Credit: Valentina Gómez-Bahamón, Field Museum Bird feathers have many different functions. Softer down keeps a bird warm and stiffer wing feathers are used for flight.