Today is National Bird Day, and it was also a big day of celebration at the Museum of Discovery. Crowds flocked to the museum and gathered to see Eli, the lilac-crowned amazon parrot who was ...

"The parrot we were called to rescue on February 19 was a lilac-crowned Amazon; the two that we received on February 22 were red-masked conures. Both species are two of thirteen that have been ...

in addition to red-crowned and lilac-crowned Amazons. Populations of these birds here are important because some species are rare and dwindling in numbers in the wild. Parrot colonies in San Diego ...

Amazon parrots between both the Red-crowned and Lilac-crowned birds make up nearly three-quarters of that population. Outside Southern California, the Red-crowned parrot in particular has dwindled ...

X-rays later showed the bird had a BB lodged in its wing. The endangered Lilac-crowned Amazon parrot died overnight. The rescuers say the birds are noisy, which can sometimes make people upset.

That was Saturday afternoon, and Toby, a lilac-crowned Amazon parrot, has been missing since. Robin and Anthony Frechette, who adopted the bird in January 2009, have tried everything they could think ...

The lilac-crowned bird picked up near the Santee ... predators in owls and hawks and other raptors. Durham says the Amazon parrots in San Diego County originate from an endangered species from ...

The injured parrot is an adult, lilac-crowned Amazon, one of three endangered parrot species in the area. In the San Diego area, there are a few thousand wild parrots, about eight species in all.