Posted by Shelley Batts on April 13, 2007 Just came across this interesting blog, CityParrots, which catalogs and reports on feral parrot populations in cities. Quite a lot of breadth, from parrot conservation, to stories on illegal trade, to Kakapos, to wild parakeets in Connecticut! Check it out!
I’m interviewing the creators of this Web site two weeks from now. After they contacted me about a story I wrote on LA’s feral parrot population. They’re flying into the Southland ( the couple that is) to attend a conference on wildlife conservation. We’re going to tour my neigborhood on a parrot finding tour. We have a large flock that forages the local fruit-bearing trees. Possibly with a wildlife biologist in tow. It should be fun!
It’s not uncommon for me to be woken up before sunrise by large flocks (50+) of squawking parrots in the eucalyptus trees outside my condo here in coastal San Diego. I think that they are red-crowned parrots, endangered in their native habitat in Central America but thriving here. They just love carob beans; they regularly plunder the carob trees down the block from me (eat one bean, drop the rest of the pod on the ground, grab another pod and repeat).
April 13, 2007
April 13, 2007
April 13, 2007