The authors pieced together the long history of parrots in the genus Amazona, focusing on two species — the Cuban (Amazona leucocephala; upper) and Hispaniolan (A. ventralis; lower) parrots — for ...

In a new study published in PNAS, researchers have extracted the first ancient DNA from Caribbean parrots, which they compared with genetic sequences from modern birds. Working with fossils and ...

Conservation genomics is a new discipline that is beginning to provide important information to scientists that could help us save endangered species and protect the global environment An ...

Cuban Parrots (Amazona leucocephala) on the island of Great Abaco in the Bahamas forage and nest in native pine forests. The population is unique in that the birds nest in limestone solution holes on ...

Following recent changes in the U.S. relationship with Cuba, I decided that it was a good time to see some uniquely Cuban birds. My wife and I prefer to travel on our own, but the United States still ...

For the first time, researchers have extracted ancient DNA from Caribbean parrot fossils and archaeological specimens, showing that species thought to be endemic to particular islands were ...