I heard an outside bird today that shouldn't be

[Iowa Roo Mom]

Last year I had a yellow parakeet on land on my truck. Tried to catch it with a fishnet and couldn't. It hung around, off and on, all summer. Haven't seen it since last winter. Poor thing. In my mind it found it's way home, in reality, well- you know.

 

[rufus]

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I see peach faced love birds are also living feral in our neighborhood now.

There is a native parrot that lives in the Chiracauhua mountains. They refer to it as a thick billed parrot. I was really surprised when we spotted it.

Rufus

 

[redhen]

Aww, poor little thing. You are right, it wont last up here.

I always hate when i hear of peoples birds getting out up here..because i know they wont make it through the winter.

Now when i lived in Florida, we had all kinds of parrots ( Huge macaws and african greys, amazons), and HUGE flock of parakeets, and cockatiels all flying free and i think that the ones that can learn to live/eat in the wild will make it....but sadly, not up here.
We had a house across the street from us in Florida and these people had a macaw and every day they would put him outside in his cage hanging from a tree..and EVERY day another wild macaw would come and sit on the tree branch and they would hang out all day long together. It was so sweet.

 

[HippieChickens]

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[key west chick]

No blue canaries. Could have been an indigo bunting or something. And lots of little sparrow type birdies sing beautiful songs that are similar to the songs of canaries. So hopefully the little birdie you heard was some sort of sparrow.

 

[Reinbeau]

No, it's not a native bird. It's definitely a caged bird that escaped, I'm very well-versed in birdsong and can identify by ear just about everything around here, it's something I've studied. As for the blue bird I saw long ago with the sparrows, it definitely was an escaped whatever-can-be-turquoise-blue bird, and there is nothing like that native here in New England. I'm not good with the identity of caged birds because I can't stand them - I feel so sorry for them, they should be flying free, where they come from, not sitting in someone's living room

 

[babylady4]

Must be a Budgie. I completely understand what you are saying about caged birds. We have 8 Budgies in a old china hutch we converted into their home; kind of the Taj Mahal of bird houses. We let them fly around the house as often as possible so they can behave like 'normal' birds.

I should add the only reason we have 8 is due to the birds liking their new home so much, they made babies..... we had 4 before that.....

 

[onthespot]

I just added a non-native turquoise blue bird to the free roaming population this morning.

I NEED that bird for a breeding program. I am hoping it survives long enough to come back and try to sleep with its flight mates tonight and I can nab it. Hopefully not a full moon. I haven't been paying attention. The one in the top right corner. DOUBLE