Flock of wild parrots

[Lil'ChickFarm]

OMG, I breed green cheek conures and I would feel so bad if babies were outside my house.
I know that there are some parrots living in the outdoors in the U.S. Several species actually.
Often times though, people loose a bird for what ever reason and you always wonder if it made it out there.
A really neat story about that subject happened to me.

One night I got an email from a girl who had found a green cheek in her back yard.
It was tame, but she didn't have any way to house it.
She had googled green cheeks in my area and found my website.
So she asked me for help.
I asked her to read the bird band and it turned out to be a baby that i had bred here and sold two years before. Since I keep all records, I found who the owner was. That night i met the rescuer and took the bird home with me. She chowed down food like it a was going to escape her again, lol.
It took a few days because the owner had changed her email but through some googling, I was able to contact her and reunite her with her bird.
She lives about a half hour from me and thought her bird was just long gone.
She was blessed over and over that her birdie found me and then was returned to her. It was a miracle of God for sure.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Lil'ChickFarm :

OMG, I breed green cheek conures and I would feel so bad if babies were outside my house.
I know that there are some parrots living in the outdoors in the U.S. Several species actually.
Often times though, people loose a bird for what ever reason and you always wonder if it made it out there.
A really neat story about that subject happened to me.

One night I got an email from a girl who had found a green cheek in her back yard.
It was tame, but she didn't have any way to house it.
She had googled green cheeks in my area and found my website.
So she asked me for help.
I asked her to read the bird band and it turned out to be a baby that i had bred here and sold two years before. Since I keep all records, I found who the owner was. That night i met the rescuer and took the bird home with me. She chowed down food like it a was going to escape her again, lol.
It took a few days because the owner had changed her email but through some googling, I was able to contact her and reunite her with her bird.
She lives about a half hour from me and thought her bird was just long gone.
She was blessed over and over that her birdie found me and then was returned to her. It was a miracle of God for sure.

That is a great story!! My MIL found a little blue parakeet once that had escaped from someone, and he was starving. He lived a long and happy life with her.​

 

[lbartsch]

A flock of wild parrots lived right outside my office window in San Francisco. They are detailed here. http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~jmorlan/sfparrots.htm

They mad me so happy everyday when I watched them do their fly-arounds. Often I'd be on the phone getting yelled at for something and I would just watch the parrots and pretend I was flying with them instead. It was great.

 

[kareninthesun]

Lil'ChickFarm :

OMG, I breed green cheek conures and I would feel so bad if babies were outside my house.
I know that there are some parrots living in the outdoors in the U.S. Several species actually.
Often times though, people loose a bird for what ever reason and you always wonder if it made it out there.
A really neat story about that subject happened to me.

One night I got an email from a girl who had found a green cheek in her back yard.
It was tame, but she didn't have any way to house it.
She had googled green cheeks in my area and found my website.
So she asked me for help.
I asked her to read the bird band and it turned out to be a baby that i had bred here and sold two years before. Since I keep all records, I found who the owner was. That night i met the rescuer and took the bird home with me. She chowed down food like it a was going to escape her again, lol.
It took a few days because the owner had changed her email but through some googling, I was able to contact her and reunite her with her bird.
She lives about a half hour from me and thought her bird was just long gone.
She was blessed over and over that her birdie found me and then was returned to her. It was a miracle of God for sure.

Great story! Thank you for sharing.
Yeah, we get parrots, and occasionally odd animals pop up since the zoo uses passive barriers to contain many types of animals. I can see Escondido with a different set of problems since many of their animals free range. Before the zoo changed the big cat areas, one employee was leaving once the zoo closed. He heard the rustling of leaves coming from the bushes which hid the trench. Thinking someone was hiding, we prepared to scare the hider by leaning over the bush towards the trench. He found himself nose to snout with a male lion. Startled them both, and without thinking he swung his metal lunch box and hit the cat square on the nose. Poor cat jumped clear back over the trench and over the fence back to his digs.

My concern over the parrots isn't as much care, they seem to stick together. I put cut fruit and some of my parrots favs on a deep bowl and hung it where they could spot it. Put my parrot outside in her cage to lure the curious along with the free ranging chickens and chicks in their very protected non windy warm outside pen. think the parrots scared the hawks and crows away. Occassionally a crow comes by, but from it's prospective, when a group of melted colored feathers come screaming...think it's intimidating.

My concern was/is this: when animals from other countries cross the border, they are checked and put in isolation. If these were smuggled from east Africa, they may harbor something which our birds have no immunity of. I dunno. If parrots live 70 years or so, this group could have started many years ago, multiplied to a larger, safely adapted community. I couldn't tell by all, but most looked larger next to my seven year old parrot.​

 

[Elke Beck]

We have huge flocks of parrots in Pasadena, CA, and last I heard there were at least 10 different species that have naturalized. They are pretty obnoxious with the noise and the pooping. It is too bad these non-native species are pushing out the native species.

 

[Stacykins]

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The United States has no native parrot species ever since the Carolina Conure was killed to extinction. The feral parrots of the U.S. are just filling the niche left open because of our extermination of the Carolina Conure.

 

[Mahonri]

There is a feral flock of parrots in our neighborhood... and we often see small groups of parakeets also. I wish they'd replace the doves and pigeons that are RAMPANT in our neighborhood.

 

[Peeper]

Remember those people in FL who were b****in about having too many peacocks living in there town? I only wish I could look outside and see something so beautiful!

 

[quintinp]

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I thought ringnecks were in UMMM India.

 

[quintinp]

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The United States has no native parrot species ever since the Carolina Conure was killed to extinction. The feral parrots of the U.S. are just filling the niche left open because of our extermination of the Carolina Conure.

I would really like to go to Brooklyn New York someday, just to see the wild quaker parrots. I would feed them all day long if they let me.