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Parrots in Florida

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User00 Mentor

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i read many introduced Parrots species now breeding wild in Florida, what species live there 

any details and photos 

Zeeth Grand Master

Zeeth

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In my parts of Central Florida, Nanday conures and Monk parakeets are common. More exotic species are present in South Florida. I know there is a colony of Blue and Gold Macaws in Coral Gables. 

Keith 

Palmetto, Florida (10a) and Tampa, Florida (9b/10a)

RedRabbit Grand Master

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Zeeth is correct. Nandays and Monks are fairly common in the Tampa Bay area, especially in Saint Petersburg. Both species are very noisy so it is easy to spot them. Budgerigars are supposedly in the area also, but I've never seen one.

Howdy 🤠

JEFF IN MODESTO Mentor

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We have wild parrots here in NorCal too.

san fransisco  and Bakersfield has a thriving population .

Modesto, CA USDA 9b

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Dec/Jan average 55f/39f

Average lowest winter temp 27f

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Silas_Sancona Grand Master

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See the same two species of Parrots Keith had mentioned as well as the occasional Budgie or Cockatiel. Phoenix also has a population of wild Parrots, specifically Peach Faced Lovebirds. There's a website that describes the different species that have been recorded across So. Cal. Was surprised at how many were listed.

rick Community Regular

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Over here Quakers (monk parrots) are really common. I've seen a few Nanday conures and cockatiels but not anywhere near as many as the monk parrots. On Palm Beach there is a breeding colony of Amazon parrots at the Breakers Hotel. Fairchild just posted some photos of Blue and Gold Macaws in the garden. http://www.fairchildgarden.org/news-pressroom-media-center/blogs/artmid/761/articleid/1474/exotic-plants-attract-exotic-birds 

DoomsDave Grand Master

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Here in California we have parrots, budgies, etc.

Yellow-fronted [NOISY EXPLETIVE EXPLETIVE] green blunt winged, blunt-tailed [SHADDUPP!} Conures, I think. (Dear god.)

Ahem.

They fly around in these flocks and the mated pairs sit next to each other on telephone wires, and they just completely drown out the crows. I mean, crows are SILENT compared. Like more of a Nazi than Hitler . . .

I'm exaggerating? You're DEAF!

Crows have a Squawk QuotientTM of about 10; these parrots have an SQ of more like 70. And I'm hard of hearing.

Budgies have a similar SQ, but they're smaller, and lack that armor-piercing power that the yellow-expletive-fronted parrots do.

 

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12 hours ago, Zeeth said:

In my parts of Central Florida, Nanday conures and Monk parakeets are common. More exotic species are present in South Florida. I know there is a colony of Blue and Gold Macaws in Coral Gables. 

wow ,Blue and Gold Macaws

Silas_Sancona Grand Master

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11 hours ago, DoomsDave said:

Here in California we have parrots, budgies, etc.

Yellow-fronted [NOISY EXPLETIVE EXPLETIVE] green blunt winged, blunt-tailed [SHADDUPP!} Conures, I think. (Dear god.)

Ahem.

They fly around in these flocks and the mated pairs sit next to each other on telephone wires, and they just completely drown out the crows. I mean, crows are SILENT compared. Like more of a Nazi than Hitler . . .

I'm exaggerating? You're DEAF!

Crows have a Squawk QuotientTM of about 10; these parrots have an SQ of more like 70. And I'm hard of hearing.

Budgies have a similar SQ, but they're smaller, and lack that armor-piercing power that the yellow-expletive-fronted parrots do.

 

Dave,

 As loud as those Parrots are, be glad you don't have Fish Crows.  During certain times of the year here, these birds can form flocks that take several minuates to pass overhead.
 A couple weeks ago, a mob of these birds descended on a retention pond and nearby trees along the property line of the nursery i work at. As loud as they were, the sight of the entire flock ( easily over 200 individuals ) suddenly taking flight and passing overhead could have been taken right out of The Crow, or Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.

Hammer Grand Master

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Admittedly we don't have any Fish Crows here in SoCal. But the crows we do have are loud and will congregate.  Almost every evening, thousands of crows fly over my house as they head to their nightly campground.   It can be a steady stream stretching for miles and last for 20 to 30 minutes. 

To Dave's point, I have had to walk under the hundreds of parrots in trees near the courthouse in Santa Ana for several mornings a few years ago.  The parrots are more visually appealing but we're WAAAAAY harder on the ears than all those crows.  Not even close to be honest. 

Zeeth Grand Master

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1 hour ago, Hammer said:

Admittedly we don't have any Fish Crows here in SoCal. But the crows we do have are loud and will congregate.  Almost every evening, thousands of crows fly over my house as they head to their nightly campground.   It can be a steady stream stretching for miles and last for 20 to 30 minutes. 

To Dave's point, I have had to walk under the hundreds of parrots in trees near the courthouse in Santa Ana for several mornings a few years ago.  The parrots are more visually appealing but we're WAAAAAY harder on the ears than all those crows.  Not even close to be honest. 

I like the sound of flocks of parrots to be honest. It sounds super tropical to me. 

Keith 

Palmetto, Florida (10a) and Tampa, Florida (9b/10a)

Hammer Grand Master

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7 hours ago, Zeeth said:

I like the sound of flocks of parrots to be honest. It sounds super tropical to me. 

They do fit with palms.  I like Pea Fowl too.  Something about their sound is really cool and exotic. 

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10 hours ago, Silas_Sancona said:

Dave,

 As loud as those Parrots are, be glad you don't have Fish Crows.  During certain times of the year here, these birds can form flocks that take several minuates to pass overhead.
 A couple weeks ago, a mob of these birds descended on a retention pond and nearby trees along the property line of the nursery i work at. As loud as they were, the sight of the entire flock ( easily over 200 individuals ) suddenly taking flight and passing overhead could have been taken right out of The Crow, or Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.

To outsquawk parrots, whoo-ee, deafness would be a blessing. Or at least earplugs.

 

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DoomsDave Grand Master

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1 hour ago, Hammer said:

They do fit with palms.  I like Pea Fowl too.  Something about their sound is really cool and exotic. 

True.

Though, like Tabasco, or Tapatio on everything you eat, too much can make you crazy.

 

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DoomsDave Grand Master

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9 hours ago, Zeeth said:

I like the sound of flocks of parrots to be honest. It sounds super tropical to me. 

Bet you'd have strangled Ferdinand the [non]-Fighting Rooster in San Berdoo 30 years ago. He crowed, at night. Even more after we got him some hens. Gave him to a deaf lady. Hope her neighbors were, too.

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We have a flock of Blue Crown Conures that likes to hang out on my street. It varies from a few pairs to about 20 pairs throughout the year. I see them in the morning headed west and in the evening headed east. They stop at my neighbors bird feeder and sit around and make as much noise as possible for about 15-20 minutes then move on.

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I didn't kill that plant. It committed suicide.

peachy Grand Master

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I get daily flocks of cockatoos, galahs, corellas, and lorikeets....now who wants to tell me about noise.

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I came. I saw. I purchased

 

 

27.35 south.

Warm subtropical, with occasional frosts.

Eric in Orlando Grand Master

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I have seen a few Monks around here but not in awhile. I wonder why there aren't more.

Is that Blue and Gold Macaw pair still nesting in Fairchild? There used to be a dead palm trunk with Myna Birds nesting in it. The Macaws kept hanging around wanted that tree. The Mynas left and the Macaws moved in. But that was over 10 years ago and that dead palm trunk is gone.

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

Eric in Orlando Grand Master

Eric in Orlando

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Also, are there wild African Grays in SoFL? 

 

 

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

Silas_Sancona Grand Master

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2 hours ago, peachy said:

I get daily flocks of cockatoos, galahs, corellas, and lorikeets....now who wants to tell me about noise.

Having experienced it first hand, feisty Cockatoos can bite also. Can't imagine keeping these guys away from precious palm seedlings every day.:bemused:

Kim Grand Master

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An old thread about the San Diego "parrots":  http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/20006-point-loma-parrot-convention/#comment-332864

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and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
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2 hours ago, Silas_Sancona said:

Having experienced it first hand, feisty Cockatoos can bite also. Can't imagine keeping these guys away from precious palm seedlings every day.:bemused:

They're seed eaters, although they enjoy chewing wood. They don't bother with palm seedlings, or even grown palms as a rule.

 

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27.35 south.

Warm subtropical, with occasional frosts.

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On 2/25/2016, 7:38:34, peachy said:

I get daily flocks of cockatoos, galahs, corellas, and lorikeets....now who wants to tell me about noise.

I can only imagine what flocks of cockatoos must sound like. We had to put our Mouloccan down last year. boy could he scream.

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Yes, cockatoos are noisy, but a table full of Rainbow Lorikeets is worse.  After a while you learn not to feed them.

 

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