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re: Those green parrots are flying around again.
Posted on 3/18/14 at 3:10 pm to Choirboy
Posted on 3/18/14 at 3:10 pm to Choirboy
I've always heard conflicting stories of they escaped from Audubon Zoo or they came on the banana boats from Central America, or they are escaped pets.
They did, it's mention in the Great Deluge that one of the eerie things right before the storm was that the parrots were gone and not making any noise.
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I think they escaped during Katrina. Had a buddy that lived on Sycamore near Carrolton/Claiborne intersection and they hung out near his place quite frequently.
They did, it's mention in the Great Deluge that one of the eerie things right before the storm was that the parrots were gone and not making any noise.
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Posted on 3/18/14 at 3:11 pm to RedFoxx
Interesting. Would you recommend that book?
Posted on 3/18/14 at 3:13 pm to Cosmo
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I have seen wild macaws along Carrolton too.
If you were around Cafe Nino, there is a house right there with a dozen of them, guy let a few go when the city started fighting him about the noise from them.
Posted on 3/18/14 at 3:36 pm to BRgetthenet
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I remember seeing them uptown a lot. But this incident today with some pretty well established pigeons was on Vets by Puglia's. They were giving those Metry pigeons the business.
There goes the neighborhood. Them Metry Pigeons aint got nothing on a good ole NERLINS Parrot.
I thought Katrina decimated their population. Glad to see them coming back. I like them. Used to see them flying all over lakefront building nests and suck....
Industrious little peckers.
Posted on 3/18/14 at 3:50 pm to Choirboy
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Interesting. Would you recommend that book?
Actually it was Breach of Faith I recommend both. I have a collection of books on Katrina but BoF is the best. It has the accounts of different people. The chapter on the doctors and patients at Charity was surreal.
Posted on 3/18/14 at 3:51 pm to RedFoxx
How about "One Dead In Attic"?
That was awful. But then again, they all are if you lived through it.
That was awful. But then again, they all are if you lived through it.
Posted on 3/18/14 at 3:58 pm to BRgetthenet
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How about "One Dead In Attic"?
I didn't care for One Dead in the Attic too much. I not a big fan of books on the storm with an agenda one way or the other, but Breach of Faith does a great job of showing how incompetent FEMA was by just laying out the facts.
Posted on 3/18/14 at 4:04 pm to Choirboy
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I think they escaped during Katrina.
They have been around longer than that. I first saw them about 15 years ago on the NOCC golf course.
This post was edited on 3/18/14 at 4:05 pm
Posted on 3/18/14 at 4:04 pm to BRgetthenet
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They were giving those Metry pigeons the business.
Good. frick those pigeons.
Posted on 3/18/14 at 4:06 pm to Choirboy
Now that I think about it, it might be 20 years ago.
Posted on 3/18/14 at 4:13 pm to glassman
They have been around since at least 1980 fall of 80 on a dove hunt near what is now english turn - one of the guys with ME - got about 5 of those green parakeets during a flurry.. they were with the doves...
we made a few hunts there...
really started seeing them around town in early 90s city park and gentilly.
after seeing a peregrine falcon swoop on a duck... i think a parakeet would be quick work...
and if they push the pigeons out.. hey more power to them
we made a few hunts there...
really started seeing them around town in early 90s city park and gentilly.
after seeing a peregrine falcon swoop on a duck... i think a parakeet would be quick work...
and if they push the pigeons out.. hey more power to them
This post was edited on 3/18/14 at 4:22 pm
Posted on 3/18/14 at 5:26 pm to choupiquesushi
ive seen a few on a couple occasions here on the fl panhandle.
Posted on 3/18/14 at 5:31 pm to choupiquesushi
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They have been around since at least 1980 fall of 80 on a dove hunt near what is now english turn - one of the guys with ME - got about 5 of those green parakeets during a flurry.. they were with the doves...
Doesn't surprise me at all. They are the dominant bird species Uptown for sure.
Posted on 3/18/14 at 5:46 pm to glassman
Somebody needs to take these parrots down a peg.
Posted on 3/18/14 at 5:46 pm to BRgetthenet
Any pics or video of these things?
Posted on 3/18/14 at 5:52 pm to BRgetthenet
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Somebody needs to take these parrots down a peg.
Well Entergy hates them. They nest in all the substations and even transformers for the warmth.
Posted on 3/18/14 at 5:55 pm to bigberg2000
Posted on 3/18/14 at 6:02 pm to BottomlandBrew
Pretty cool.
Posted on 3/18/14 at 6:43 pm to BottomlandBrew
Nice pic, you take it?
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