City Parrots

The Parrot family is the avian class most at risk of extinction. In sharp contrast, it is also the class very many naturalised species. Conservation should learn from this. Parrots from a wide range species and genera life naturalised in cities, suburbs, parks and botanical gardens on every continent. Some of these naturalized species are endangered, critically endangered and even now extinct in native ranges. Suburban parrots show that parrots can adapt to alien habitats and maintain sizable populations there. Although no substitute for habitat preservation, establishing native suburban populations of threatened or near-threatened species is a comparatively simple and economic conservation tool of use for species of parrots that are now mostly neglected by conservation.

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