A Passion for Parrots and the Fight to Save Them in the Wild
September 05, 2006 — Filed in: Parrot News
A Conversation With Joseph M. Forshaw
On a sweltering afternoon this summer, Joseph M. Forshaw, an Australian ornithologist, strolled through Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, scanning the trees for feral monk parrots. No one knows how these squawking green birds, usually native to Argentina, first arrived in New York. But they thrive in wooded corners throughout the city.
