Wild Quaker Parrots "Rumble" in Brooklyn

i have one of these parrots
their cool

Unfortunately, my area in Brooklyn had a parrot nest on every single Con Edison transformer pole. (power company). The parrots are now gone, and have been gone for about 3-4 years. They think that bacteria had gotten into the nests somehow, so this entire area is not PARROTLESS. which really sucks, cause they would hang out in my yard, eating the crab apples from the tree behind my house. I wish they would return. Personally, I think Con Ed had something to do with it, but it can't be proven.

wow those are really cool birds

Quakers have lived wild in various parts of the country (mostly urban areas, I think) for quite a while now--for decades in parts of Chicago. I'm not aware of any cases where they've pushed out native species. We actually once had a native parrot in North America, the Carolina parakeet--extinct since probably 1918. Maybe these little guys step into the niche the Carolina parakeet once occupied.

This is very cool! Love it! "Can't we all just get along?" "Wha'dya mean? This is us getting along!"
There's an ornithologist in The Birds who says that birds of different species don't flock together...which is odd that Hitchcock had that because every birder knows birds hang out together, regardless (well, the predators...that's another matter) but these little veggie lovers...
Anyway, thanks for sharing.

LMAO!

i just saw 3 quakers in long island ny awesome

It would have been really cool if they would have ganged up on the pigeons or the squirrel

I have 2 in my backyard, and it is winter outside. They seem very happy.

I was just thinking about that 2....pretty scary in a way.