Cynthia Gill's bird barn is hallowed ground. Strangers aren't allowed inside, and she only visits to feed and check on her 97 birds when she absolutely needs to. Because breeding birds is tricky ...

Trying to describe an adult macaw could consume a dictionary of adjectives–exotic, colorful, intelligent, powerful, not to mention loud when in full squawk. But macaw breeder Charlie Hume’s favorite ...

More than a year after Ernst Neumann was reunited with 10 of his stolen exotic baby birds, the breeder says he still wonders what happened to three birds that were never found. “I’m trying to put it ...

A century or more before the Spanish set foot in the Americas, birds of a multi-hued feather were bred together in what’s now a desolate part of northwestern Mexico. That, at least, is the implication ...