March 21st, 2006
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| Photo by Glynn Wilson |
| Sometime in the past century, what the local people call “wild green parrots” from South America, smuggled in as pets, escaped, bred and thrived in New Orleans. They make large nests in the native and non-native palm trees by chopping off limbs and flying with the sticks in their beaks. It is fascinating to watch them perform this airborne balancing act. And it was good to see at least some of them survived Hurricane Katrina. I caught this one working on its nest in a palm tree on Carrolton Avenue in the Old Carrollton neighborhood near River Bend. Bob Sargent says it looks to him like a Monk Parakeet, which seems likely. Here’s a Gambit Weekly story about the invasion of the myiopsitta monachus. |
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