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The Oregonian by Holley Gilbert
VANCOUVER — Wild Quaker parrot enthusiasts are joining forces March 1 in Yacolt to erect more alternative nesting sites in an effort to keep the colorful birds from building on Clark Public Utilities’ transformers, where they pose a safety hazard. Read on…
Melbourne’s Arts Centre spire is under attack from a small but persistent flock of sulphur-crested cockatoos, but a group of trained raptors may be the landmark’s saviour. Read on…
By Amy Crawford Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Steve Baldwin spotted the first handful of bright green quaker parrots at the grassy margin of an Astroturf soccer field. Excitedly, he pointed them out to the dozen people who had signed up for what he calls a “wild parrot safari”.
“They’re doing what they love to do on a day like this — come down and forage,” Baldwin said, as the birders snapped pictures. “They like to eat grass, clover, weeds. When the sun hits them, they glow, like an emerald color.”
Suddenly something spooked the birds, and they took off, squawking loudly and swooping through the air, to land in a nearby oak tree and on the roof of an apartment building.
“Yeah, they like to roost in that tree,” said Baldwin. “It’s safe from predators.” Read on…
If you want to experience a taste of the tropics here in the Garden State, you must visit the monk parakeet colony in Edgewater. Read on…
Medill Reports by Angela Nitzke
Trudging along the snow-covered streets of Hyde Park, you hear chirping and screeching resembling the sound of Styrofoam pieces rubbing together. You look up and see a bright green and blue parakeet. You may think that all the cold and snow has finally made you go mad, but there really are tropical birds that have colonized on the South Side of Chicago. They are called monk parakeets. Read on…
In the face of angry opposition from pet owners, the Pennsylvania Game Commission Tuesday dropped a proposal that would have banned ownership of nanday conures, a popular South American parrot. Read on…
By Adam Brandolph: Sacramento Bee
Bird owners are raising a flap over a Pennsylvania Game Commission plan to ban a fowl some now keep as pets. Read on…
YACOLT — Several Quaker Parrots who have made an unlikely home in this rural burg were a cheerful bunch on Saturday. Read on…
O monk parakeet, o escapee from parrot prison:
You soar above the flood, you snuggle into the wind, your green plumage rustling.
You clutch the utility poles that help bring electricity to the families of Yacolt.
You build elaborate nests amid the braided wires, the ceramic insulators, the occasional cherry-pickers.
You are far from your home country, south of the equator. You no longer whistle exclusively in Spanish or Portuguese, but in English or Spanish, depending. Read on…
WHITTIER - Parrots are multiplying like rabbits, according to residents and bird watchers.
Flocks of the birds are turning up in Uptown Whittier, and their numbers are increasing where they are already known to congregate.
“They’re reproducing,” Whittier Audubon Society member Larry Schmahl said. “They’re showing up all over the place.”
The feral parrots have been sighted near Greenleaf and Mar Vista, spending daylight hours in trees full of fall fruit and seeds. Numbers are also up in Sorensen Park and the surrounding area, according to park workers and nearby residents. Read on…
