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From: sbishop@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Indoor Antics
Message-ID: <809.269c1af8@desire.wright.edu>
Date: 12 Jul 90 11:38:48 GMT
References: <840@cfiprod.UUCP> <332@spam.ua.oz>
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In article <332@spam.ua.oz>, wvenable@spam.ua.oz (Bill Venables) writes:
> In article <840@cfiprod.UUCP> susans@cfi.com (Susan Scheide) writes:
>>
>>Two cute stories:
>>
>>First, my blue budgie ...
>>
>>Second, my six month old cockatiel ...
> 
> Two Australian parrots!  How quaint.  I have a few questions for you
> folks in the USA/Canada/UK, if I may
> 
> 1) Are any other Australian birds popular pets?
> 
> 2) Have any Australian birds managed to establish themselves as feral
>    populations overseas?  (We have heaps of English, European and
>    Asian feral species here, :-(, but no American as far as I know.)
> 
There is a flock of parakeets living wild near Tampa Florida.  I did hear that
most of them were killed by the recent severe cold spell.
Also I remember reading that there is a flock of monk parrots living in
Chicago.  I forget where I read it.  Does any one out there on the net know
anything about this?

> Just a few snippets about Budgerigars and Cockatiels before I go.
> 
> Wild budgerigars are very numerous, but they live in such remote and
> arid places they are rarely seen in the wild by most Australians. I
> certainly have not seen one, and I have seen a good bit of the
> country.  They tend to be a nomadic and irruptive species - they are
> not seen for many years, and suddenly there might be a flock of
> several thousand or more persistent in an area for several months. In
> the wild, of course, they are always green.
> 

Interesting how domestication has changed the color.  I have five parakeets,
all shades of blue, yellow with green patches, tourquise.....