Great title for an article about London’s invasive parakeet population: The Pollycrisis. “Do we want tens of thousands of Himalayan parrots squabbling all over our cities?”
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Says the country that imported their sparrow to pretty much every country around the world! https://milliontrees.me/2012/05/08/the-sparrow-wars-americas-first-invasive-species/ My mom is an avid birder and gets pissed at sparrows for displacing the bluebird nests in her garden and has all sorts of intricate systems to help the bluebirds... :)
There's a colony of Quaker Parrots in Brooklyn that's been there since the late 60's I think. They are loud, but having lived at various times of my life in South America and later Mexico, I find them quite comforting.
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