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By Nancy Montgomery, Stars and Stripes
HEIDELBERG, Germany — San Juan Capistrano has its swallows. Trafalgar Square has its pigeons. Heidelberg’s Campbell Barracks has its full-bird colonels.
But the home of U.S. Army Europe and V Corps Headquarters also has something way more colorful and unexpected. Campbell Barracks has wild parrots. Read on…
By WILLIAM KELLY,Daily News Staff Writer
Although endangered by loss of habitat in its native Mexico, the green-cheeked Amazon parrot thrives in the comparatively tame outdoors of Palm Beach.
The parrots have adopted as their home the lanky Australian pines along the Pine Walk beside The Breakers, where they can be seen cavorting and squawking at dawn and dusk. Read on…
We always wondered why we hear so few rapports about feral African Grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus) that have escaped and live feral lives. Handbook of the birds of the world (vol. 4) mentions that many African cities have feral populations. But that’s about the extend of the reports. No mention of population size or breeding success. We know African Greys are capable of living free-range lives. Many people that free-fly their parrots have second guesses with African greys as they are supposed to get lost more often than other species of parrot. But in Cumbria UK many free-range grey parrots live in and around the country house of our friend there and he does not experience any trouble with them. Read on…
They’ve become as ubiquitous in many parts of Brooklyn as their much less colorful cousin the pigeon. But friends of the South American Monk Parrots, introduced to Brooklyn more than 30 years ago when a shipment of birds supposedly went awry at JFK Airport, fear that the parrots are now being poached right out of their well-constructed nests located high atop telephone poles all around Midwood and Marine Park. Read on…
We from Araproject always love to hear from the public. We know many people check in at our website to stay informed about the developments of the Scarlet macaws. In our talks with the people we meet, we often get questions about the origin of the macaws. Many locals recall bigger groups of macaws flying in the research area. Read on…
On Saturday the 15the of July we found the nest of the Scarlet macaws empty. Two weeks before team Araproject found two chicks in perfect health. No sign of a struggle were found and we therefore conclude the chicks were stolen.
Team Araproject is inconsolable. These two chicks were the hope of this species that is threatened with extinction in their native lands. Toos and Nape, the parents, show signs of distress. They have sat at the entrance of the nest for hours looking for their babies. Even looking down to see if they had fallen down. It is heartbreaking to see their despair. Read on…
City Parrots is dedicated to the miracle Scarlet Macaws (Ara macao) that have been ranging free in the Netherlands for over 25 years. Toos and Nape, as we have named these parrots, allow us, and you, a closer look into the lives of wild Scarlet Macaws. Both are representatives of the endangered Mezzo-American subspecies of Scarlet macaw (Ara macao cyanoptera). Read on…
Emagazine.com by Jayasudha Joseph
Take a walk through the dense thickets that rim the teeming marshlands along the Connecticut coast, and you may feel like you are exploring a wild South American jungle. That’s because you may hear the loud squawking and shrieking of an import from the Southern Hemisphere, Myiopsitta monachus, known as monk or Quaker parakeets.
Mostly green with yellow bellies and bright blue feathers in their wings and tail, these birds are believed to have first appeared in U.S. skies in the 1960s. Their native homeland ranged from central Bolivia to southern Brazil, Uruguay and southern and central Argentina. Today, these birds can be found in more than a dozen states, including Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, Illinois, Oregon, California and much of the Northeast.
According to biologist Stephen Pruett-Jones of the University of Chicago, who has been studying monk parakeets at Illinois’ Hyde Park for more than a decade, there may be as many as 200,000 of these birds nationwide. Read on…
Well known Dutch nature magazine Grasduinen has dedicated their April issue to naturalized animals in The Netherlands. We are very pleased that their editor, Paul Böhre, states that Toos and Nape are the most beautiful feral birds in the Netherlands. Paul joined us one morning and his article is published on the 2nd page of the issue. “de mooiste exoten van Nederland�?
McALLEN — Jane Kittleman is not the only one noticing the green parakeets that flock daily to telephone lines and oak trees at the intersection of Dove Avenue and 10th Street. Read on…
