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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…
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 safariâ€.
“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.â€
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…
Sharon Matola, the “Zoo Lady” of Belize, is an unlikely environmental hero. A one-time Iowa housewife, she trained in jungle survival with the Air Force, rode freights to Florida to study animal behavior and apprenticed to a Romanian tiger tamer. Later she worked as a circus dancer (with tigers) in Mexico. In the early 1980s, she helped film a nature documentary in Belize. At the end of the shoot, she inherited 20 exotic jungle animals, and the Belize Zoo was born.
A quarter-century later, Matola is a widely respected authority on the scarlet macaw and other tropical species. Her zoo is among the most popular tourist attractions in Belize. And she is successfully restoring harpy eagles and other threatened species to the Belize jungle. Read on…
YACOLT — Several Quaker Parrots who have made an unlikely home in this rural burg were a cheerful bunch on Saturday. Read on…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
