The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2014
But it is most probable that the birds are released or escaped pets. One article states that by the end of the 1960′s, over 16,000 Monk Parakeets a year were being imported into the U.S.**. There are a lot of pet psittacines out there that escape or are released. Not many survive, and very few flourish.
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