Gothamist: Do NYC Birds Freeze?

Gail Leong

Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:57:19 -0500

Whoever rescued the bird should be weary of Anthrax: Anthrax is a disease that mainly affects ungulates or in other words cloven footed animals like domestic and wild herbivores - - includes green parakeets.

Marcy

Fri, 21 Jan 2005 22:56:10 -0500

There are lots of (wild) monk parakeets in Brooklyn. I've seen tons near Brooklyn College.

scazza

Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:07:43 -0500

Hyde Park in Chicago has a flock of parakeets of its own: http://chicagowildernessmag.org/issues/winter2003/monkparakeets.html http://www.monkparakeet.com/jmsouth/

Garth

Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:59:18 -0500

It could also be a monk parakeet, the only parakeet to build it's own nests and to stay active throughout winter. Over the past half century they have been steadilly entering urban areas across the US. Originally brought to the states as pets, they have little problem sitting through the cold months in their easily spotted nests (they look like big balls of twigs with one hole in them, and unlike squirrel nests don't have newspapers and things in them). The first recorded sightings of them in the wild was in the 60's on Long Island (probably from a container at JFK). The most famous of the monk parakeet populations in the US is the huge group of them that lives in Hyde Park, Chicago. a few sites on monk parakeets in the us: http://www.bridgeport.edu/~robert/parrot.htm http://invasions.bio.utk.edu/invaders/monk.html

Kojak

Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:22:49 -0500

lol@Dirk Cheers

Dirk

Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:25:33 -0500

The bird was found in Chelsea, so it's obviously gay. It's owner probably watches Spongebob. The homosexual agenda continues...

Steven Smith

Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:22:19 -0500

The person writing in seems to take issue with the sign just for the sake of taking issue with the sign. Was it really worth taking a photo and sending it in? Does it really matter what the sign says if it gets the attention of the bird's owner? Does asking so many questions about so many questions make me an unmitigated prick as well?

joe

Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:20:06 -0500

Instead of a pet could the bird be a feral parakeet?

erikka

Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:24:18 -0500

Slow news day?