Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. NAWT ...

It usually starts with a baby bird. The owners are excited to spend time with their young parrot, and they spoil it with attention. Then, reality sets in. The parrot grows up, and its owners can no ...

First red-tailed hawks, now blacked-headed caiques. Tompkins Square Park is clearly for the birds. An East Village man recently corralled the caique — a rare Amazon parrot — near the entrance at ...

JAMULJAMUL — A wild Amazon parrot shot with a pellet gun in Lakeside late last month is recovering at a parrot rescue sanctuary in Jamul along with two other birds shot in the county within the last ...