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Theodoric
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Message 7 of 13 (708598)
10-11-2013 10:11 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by yenmor
10-10-2013 12:42 PM


If you do a search on the internet, you're not going to find anything.
Really? Are your search capabilities that bad?
I found this in less than 30 secs.
http://www.northjersey.com/...BR__views__ideal_for_kids.html
Monk Parakeets Doing Well | The Meadowlands Nature Blog
Chicago's Monk Parakeets: Thriving for 40 Years - The Chicagoist
From Wiki
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Considerable numbers of Monk Parakeet were imported to the United States in the late 1960s as pets. Many escaped or were intentionally released, and populations were allowed to proliferate. By the early 1970s, M. monachus was established in seven states, and by 1995 it had spread to eight more. There are now thought to be approximately 100,000 in Florida alone.
As one of the few temperate-zone parrots, the Monk Parakeet is more able than most to survive cold climates, and colonies exist as far north as New York City, Chicago, Wisconsin, Cincinnati, Louisville, northern New Jersey, coastal Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut, and southwestern Washington. This hardiness makes this species second only to the Rose-ringed Parakeet amongst parrots as a successful introduced species.
In addition, they have also found a home in Brooklyn, New York, after an accidental release decades ago of what appears to have been black-market birds[14] within Green-Wood Cemetery. The grounds crew initially tried to destroy the unsightly nests at the entrance gate, but no longer do so because the presence of the parrots has reduced the number of pigeons nesting within it. The management's decision was based on a comparative chemical analysis of pigeon feces (which destroy brownstone structures) and Monk Parakeet feces (which have no ill effect). Oddly then, the Monk Parakeets are in effect preserving this historic structure. Brooklyn College has a Monk Parakeet as an "unofficial" mascot in reference to the colony of the species that lives in its campus grounds. It is featured on the masthead of the student magazine. They have also made their homes in the lamp posts in Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx. Most of these Quaker populations can be traced to shipments of captured Quakers from Argentina.[15]
Nothing to see here folks. Move along.

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts
"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.

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Theodoric
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Message 13 of 13 (708706)
10-12-2013 2:16 PM
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10-10-2013 12:42 PM


We are told that these critters are from the amazon forest
No we are not.
See map above.

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