City ParrotsUrban Scarlet Macaw & Parrot Conservation

The Oregonian

VANCOUVER — The wild Quaker parrots of Yacolt got a reprieve this week when the town council gave bird enthusiasts four months to develop a plan for their feathered friends’ future. Read on…

By Tom Vogt, Columbian

Yacolt - It’s an appealing mixture of food, fellowship and shelter.

Actually, it’s a trap. But Christopher Driggins hopes the parrots of Yacolt won’t realize that until the door slaps shut.

See video

The Vancouver man is part of a campaign to capture the tropical birds so they don’t have to face a grimmer fate. The Quaker parrots - some people call them Monk parakeets - have been trespassing on power poles, and three were killed in an effort to keep the birds from weaving their big nests around electrical transformers. Read on…

By Tom Vogt, Columbian

Yacolt’s parrots are in a holding pattern.

The tropical birds are no longer under an imminent death sentence, but the town’s parrot advocates must find a new hangout for their feathered friends. Read on…

Columbian.com- By Tom Vogt

YACOLT - Jennette Kachmar picked up a twig at the base of the power pole and added it to the twiggy bouquet in her other hand.

When she went to bed Monday night, some of those sticks had been part of a Monk parakeets’ nest - a basketlike structure that had enveloped the electrical transformer at the top of that pole. Read on…

By David Krough and Teresa Blackman, kgw.com

YACOLT, Wash. — Authorities captured three out of some 50 parakeets said to be causing repeated power outages in the Yacolt area and euthanized them. Read on…

The Brownsville Herald

Harlingen — The chase was on Saturday as birders rode in a bus around Harlingen to catch a glimpse of parrots and parakeets. Read on…

Earthtimes.org

Brussels - As debate rages in Europe over genetically- modified maize and “Frankenstein’s potatoes,” the continent is quietly moving towards a different new species: the Euro-parrot. “Ring-necked parakeets in Europe are isolated from the native population, so they will develop along their own evolutionary path. Given enough time, that should lead to the development of separate species,” Graham Madge of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. Read on…

New Haven Register by Ed Stannard

The monk parakeets that choose utility poles as the real estate for their large nests will be evicted next week, but they won’t be executed.

United Illuminating Co. said Friday that it will remove 89 nests from its equipment starting Tuesday, which it has done about every six months since March 2006. Read on…

BY DENISE ROMANO - NYDailyNews.com

The birds are back in town.

The famed Brooklyn monk parrots are popping up all over the borough — for a whole flock of reasons. Read on…

By Christine Morente MediaNews

For the past few weeks, several Brisbane residents have heard the resounding cries of the cherry-headed conures made famous by the book “The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill.” Read on…