Posted on 06/14/2023 1:29:56 PM PDT by FarCenter
The plumage don’t enter into it.
“...just as though I had turned off a switch. It was time to go to sleep, obviously.”
We got the opposite problem in the cities. Birds are programmed to be quiet at night (except for mockingbirds), but since cities have streetlights and other lights on all the time, the birds get confused and sometimes chirp away all night long.
Where I am the birds wake up at 4 AM this time of year. Our yard sounds like an aviary.
We’re going to need more crackers.
Quakers /Monk parakeets are twice as big as green cheeks, their nares are covered with feathers whereas green cheek nostrils are bare, quakers are much lighter lime green rather than dark forest green, have a soft gray cowl as opposed to the deep colored GC, Quakers have horn colored beaks rather than dark blackish beaks, Quakers do not have the reddish green belly, red tail, and white eye rings that green cheeks do, Quakers have pale gray legs while GC have dark colored legs, and Quakers are 18 times as loud but better imitators of himan speech with the capability of learning as many words as an African gray.
Other than that they look the same.
:-)
Back in the 80s I was visiting a friend in Pasadena on a motorcycle trip. We stayed overnight on Saturday. Sunday morning I was awakened by a bunch of loud screeching that sounded like a bunch of screaming children. I went out to see what was up. There was a huge flock of green parrots in the trees just screeching away like mad. Lol. The weather is nice enough that they survive year round. You won’t see them where it freezes. Ai least I never have.
We used to have wild parrots in the South Bay town I grew up in. They suddenly disappeared sometime during the 80s.
There are large flocks of them in LA.
Parrots are very smart and can be trained to talk, do tricks, and sit on nice people’s shoulders while they walk. I’d love to have one, but they live longer than humans and don’t adapt to new people very well. Besides, my cat would object.
When is “Talk Like a Parrot Day”?
I worked for a company just outside the NW city limits of SA for 8 years-until 2005-in a little industrial area-the cultured marble factory and sales outlet across the street had a big, fancy two-sided plastic sign on a 30 ft. pole-it was hollow and had lights inside that went on at dusk. The inside of that sign was full of the grass-and-stick nests of about 20-25 of those green Monk Parakeets-in the morning when I got to work they would be flying around, perching in the trees and vocalizing-everyone brought them bird food and treats, and there were several birdbaths set up for them at the feeding areas on the grounds-they were very popular with everyone at work and the customers were always charmed by them, so they were a sales asset, as well.
It freezes every Winter in North SA, and sometimes snows, but it didn’t appear to affect those birds-never found any dead ones in Winter-the lights in the sign must have kept them warm enough...
There is a small flock of what looks like the same birds that lives out here in hollow trees and little caves on the cliffs along sections of the riverbank-they’ve been here for about 10-11 years-they come and eat from bird feeders that everybody has for native birds, and they hang out with the native birds-there would probably be more of them if there were not so many hawks living by the river, too...
This rural area is nearly 50 miles north of SA, in the hills, it usually snows a few times in Winter and is 10-12 degrees colder on the average than in the city, so apparently those parrots adapt very well over time to a colder place...
I love parrots but they are loud. I had three when I lived in Miami and a love bird. They are great pets
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I thought they were the loudest animal until I heard a lion roar inside an enclosed zoo setting.
LMAO! I’ve thought about coaxing one of those parakeets out here into a cage with some treats/food to be a pet, but I have 4 cats that live indoors-they are shelter/rescue cats who know what birds are-so no, that would not be a good idea...
I never knew there were parrots in the South Bay. Our mourning doves disappeared with the arrival of the crows around 1995.
I have never heard these birds called monk parakeets. I have only heard them referred to as Quaker parrots.
"Polly" means many. It's the simple meaning.
So true. 😆
This is called a Quaker Parokeet. I had one as a kid. They are great birds.
A Pirate has a parrot and has had it for years and the Pirate decides to retire. The parrot picks up the usual bad habits, remembering words and phrases, one of those is “F$&@ you, Patcheye.” He gets tired of it, so he sells it to a pet shop. The pet shop has got it for sale for a while and finally a customer comes in buys it and brings it back a few days later and says “I want my money back this bird is vulgar and I can’t have that around my kids.” The pet shop owner says “What are you talking about?” He says it says “F@&$ you Patcheye” all the time. The pet shop guy says “OK I’ll take it back.”
Pet shop owner says to the bird “you got a quit doing that” The bird looks at him and says “F&@$ you Patcheye.” The pet shop owner cuts out The birds tongue looks at him and says “what do you think about that rude bird ?”The parrot looks at him takes one foot covers up one eye then takes the other foot while holding on to the perch in the cage with it’s beak and shoots him the middle claw.
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