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Parrot of some type

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Palm crazy Grand Master

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Two parrots are flying around in the next neighborhood next to me. Looks like someones pets may have escaped.  

Can anyone tell me what type of birds these are and could they survive the cold winters here? 

Thanks! 

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DoomsDave Grand Master

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43 minutes ago, Tulio said:

Peach Faced Lovebird

yes

They're so cute, and cats LOVE THEM. (Alas.)

Hope someone can catch them before winter sets in.

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Pip Grand Master

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I used to keep them for years when I was a kid. I kept them in an outdoor aviary with lots of wooden nesting boxes and hollow logs for shelter. My climate is almost frost free so can't really comment on keeping them outdoors in cooler climates.

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Thanks thats what I thought they were. 

Maybe they’ll know that when it start to get cold they’ll fly south. But yeah hopefully they can be caught. 

The biggest immediate danger for them here is the sparrow hawks love to kill and eat other birds. 

They’ve been spotted at a small lake looking for food and shelter, will update if they are caught. 

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Neat.... your climate is most likely mild enough.. food source might be a problem,  but you have hummingbirds year round right? I don't think those are hardy birds at all

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19 minutes ago, SailorBold said:

Neat.... your climate is most likely mild enough.. food source might be a problem,  but you have hummingbirds year round right? I don't think those are hardy birds at all

I agree they wouldn’t survive here because of the winter chill, just not warm enough.  Yes some hummers are here all year round, we also have tons of winter birds. 

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I love it, nice parrots!!!

But i think the best is they wouldn't survive.

They are a couple and if they survive, they will reproduce and in the next year you will have ten nice parrots flying near you house. But the ten parrots will reproduce and in a future USA will be eaten for millions of nice and small parrots:floor:.

This is not true, lol.

But in Spain we have a problem with argentinian parrots. A very lovely parrots, but too noisy and they are fighting with spanish birds. 

Every mornings, when i see one hundred parrots flying near my house, i think i am in the jungle:wacko:

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Gorgeous birds. I'd love a pair but part of me balks at the idea of keeping a bird in a cage

Larry Shone in wet and sunny north-east England!  Zone9 ish

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Pip Grand Master

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I don't have an issue with keeping caged birds as long as they have room and some kind of environmental enrichment as demonstrated in the above video clip. Those two lovebirds looked to be really enjoying themselves.

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Is the Major Mitchell's Cockatoo in your avatar pic yours Pip? They are such beautiful birds. I had a pet Galah who sadly passed away a few years ago & we also had a (very, very noisy) Corella who we had to part with when we moved to Malta (from the UK), but he went to a Cockatoo sanctuary & he now lives happily in an aviary with an Umbrella Cockatoo :D

Malta - USDA Zone 11a

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7 hours ago, SouthSeaNate said:

Is the Major Mitchell's Cockatoo in your avatar pic yours Pip? They are such beautiful birds. I had a pet Galah who sadly passed away a few years ago & we also had a (very, very noisy) Corella who we had to part with when we moved to Malta (from the UK), but he went to a Cockatoo sanctuary & he now lives happily in an aviary with an Umbrella Cockatoo :D

Yes the Major Mitchell cockatoo is mine. My partner and I used to run a small aquarium shop and one of our customers didn't want Mitch anymore but took a liking to one of our shop display breeding pairs of Discus Cichlids.  I think we got the better deal Discus are so temperamental and challenging to maintain here in Adelaide.

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I think you got the much better deal! Major Mitchell's are very rare outside of Australia, I only ever saw one for sale in the UK & it was very expensive, I paid almost £1000 for my Galah, which I'm sure many Australian's would find amusing :D

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Malta - USDA Zone 11a

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