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Tuesday, May 3, 2024-Con Ed Nest Teardowns in Brooklyn
A concerned resident of Brooklyn witnessed Con Edison contractors tearing down a mid-sized wild parrot nest built on a pole supporting a power transformer. This kicks starts the annual battle between New York City's utility company and the wild parrots of Brooklyn.....Read more...
Tuesday, May 3, 2024-Con Ed Nest Teardowns in Brooklyn
A concerned resident of Brooklyn witnessed Con Edison contractors tearing down a mid-sized wild parrot nest built on a pole supporting a power transformer. This kicks starts the annual battle between New York City's utility company and the wild parrots of Brooklyn.....Read more...
Public Service Electric and Gas Co. is planning to remove about a half-dozen wild Quaker nests in the Edgewater, NJ area. The company says the nests pose a fire hazard and it intends to "de-nest" the poles in the next month or so, as it does occasionally to prevent fires, according to Jennifer Connell, a PSE&G spokeswoman.
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April 13, 2024-The Seattle Times
The Port Orchard City Council ruled that Cingular Wireless can replace a cellphone tower with one that's nearly twice as tall but only if Quaker parrots nesting on it are safely placed in captivity.....
MARCH 22, 2024- ComEd removes more wild Quaker nests....
online resource: abc7chicago.com
February 9, 2024-Quaker parrots in a Chicago snowstorm....what a sight!WGN
More on Chicago Quakers from 2024:
abc7chicago.comTree that was home to Chicago parakeet colony falls down: nwitimes.com
Parrots have residents singing different tunes: Pilotonline.com
An international consortium of neuroscientists has proposed a drastic renaming of the structures of the bird brain to correctly portray birds as more comparable to mammals in their cognitive ability. Online resource:dukemednews
February 09, 2024- Miami, Florida Police charged a 34-year-old rescue worker with cruelty to animals after a weekend incident in which he bit the head off a Quaker parrot. Bruce Coates, 34, was suspended from his job with the Edgewater city fire department after his arrest on Monday, authorities said. A local official said Coates, who said he had been drinking alcohol and did not remember what had happened, was apologetic and offered to replace Izzy the parrot. Witnesses told deputies that Coates and several other people were playing billiards. The parrot was alledgedly, on one of the player's shoulder when Coates grabbed the parrot, put the bird's head in his mouth and bit it off. An Edgewater fire spokesperson has said that Mr. Coates will stay on leave with pay pending the outcome of the investigation.Online resources for the above articles are no longer available.
QUAKER PARROTS INVADE BARCELONA: bbc.co.uk
Scientists at Indiana University and Leiden University in the Netherlands have shown for the first time that parrots can use their tongues like humans, to craft and shape sound. The study was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Monk parakeets for the study were provided by Michael Avery of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Wildlife Research Center: Indiana University Media Relations
Some residents of West Haven, CT, have a strong sentiment about wild Quakers: MiddletownPress.com
April 11, 2024- Norfolk, Va.
Whatever happened to...the parrots on Bedford Avenue?
The parrots are back on Bedford Avenue. For Larchmont bird lovers, it s a welcome sight. Last year, the wild parrots multilayer nest, built around an electrical transformer, was destroyed by a fire. It was just the beginning of a tough year for the colony of monk parrots who have spent decades on the tree-lined street......read MORE...
