Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
grrlscientist | May 26, 2010tags: animal adoption, pets, birds, parrots, Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, San Francisco
Image: orphaned (like the birds).
In response to an email I received on Sunday morning, I wrote a short plea for help finding homes for some of San Francisco's famous Telegraph Hill parrots. But the situation these birds face was far from clear, so I did some investigating to learn more about these birds' plight.
For those who might not be familiar with them, these parrots were made famous by the 2005 documentary, "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill," [regular people's DVD and collector's DVD] based…
grrlscientist | May 23, 2010tags: animal adoption, pets, birds, parrots, Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Image: orphaned (like the birds).
For the last five years or more, the San Francisco peninsula parrot rescue organization, Mickaboo Companion Bird Rescue, has been taking in injured or sick members of the wild Telegraph Hill parrot flock and finding homes for them. At this time, Mickaboo is overwhelmed with wild parrots. Jennifer Erlichman, the wild parrot rescue coordinator for Mickaboo is seeking homes for these birds -- I believe, but don't know for sure, that she wants these birds to go to homes that are…