by TMS 8 Replies latest jw friends
A flock of 160 red-crowned green parrots patrols Brownsville, feasting on palm dates, berries, citrus. My son lives in an old house there and says the birds wake him up frequently. The New York Times ran an article this morning. Hope this link works:
Here is a link with audio to actually hear the parrots.
http://www.worldbirdingcenter.org/bird_info/red_crowned_parrot.phtml
tms
That is quite a few birds, they are very pretty....you should of seen my cats a come running
when I played the video...lol
Thanks for sharing..
H40
That's awesome! I have two parrots and I love to read about/watch wild parrots. There's a flock in Austin, also, of different kinds of parrots that hang out near the river. It's really cool! There's a documentary called "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill" about parrots that have been wild in San Francisco for awhile and about the man that takes care of them. There's also a wild flock of parrots in North Carlolina, Quaker parrots. They are considered a pest down there. They didn't use to be there, but they've taken up residence and created quite a stir. Whenever I watch the video, my parrots go into culture shock... HAHAHAH! Glad to see that someone else loves birds as much as I do!
CG
We have flocks of wild parrots, mostly green ones, that roam the skies here in southern California. They have distinctive cries and are seldom solitary. I've come to think of them as the "California Parrots, trying to form their own new subspeices".
Mustang
Word is most of the parrots came to Brownsville after the last freeze in the early 80's. The hollowed trunks of dead palm trees provided natural cover.
They spend a lot of time around the old Charles Stillman house. Stillman was a cronie of the late Richard King (King Ranch). They roam around town a lot without an obvious method to their madness. In a non-scientific study, my son says they usually hit St. Charles Street early, only to return a couple of hours later.
I've read that many of the yellow-crowned are former captives. Most or all of the red-crowned are wild.
tms
Just wondering why you posted this? Looking for other parrot people, or trying to raise dollars for the parrots?
CG
A parrot person
Obviously, our greens are escapees; they must be into several generations, as I have seen them for 5 or 6 years, at least, now.
But there is occasional mention of the rarer, large red macaws living solitary in our palm trees.
Mustang
From Country Girl:
"Just wondering why you posted this? Looking for other parrot people, or trying to raise dollars for the parrots?"
Well, not looking for parrots or dollars for the parrot people. Ornithology is a great field of study, by so is JWDology. . . . . .
At this point in the life of JWD, just making observations. . Whew! Did Kobe just miss freethrow?
tns
Well... I am not really aware of he parrot populationin Texas. I only have two parrots. An african gray and a blue head conure. I would love to get involved in this because ie means so much to me. I do know there are parrot populations in Texas, and I would love to find out where they came fron, how they populated, etc.
CG
