The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2014
Some articles speculate that the nests offer protection against the cold. In Queens, I periodically read local news articles describing how Con Edison is trying gentle means of persuasion to get the birds to move—spikes, sprays, sound machines, mechanical owls. There are a lot of pet psittacines out there that escape or are released.
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