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yenmor Member (Idle past 3683 days) Posts: 145 Joined: |
We are told that these critters are from the amazon forest and that they can't survive the harsh winter here. And yet, if you ask anyone who works in construction, he'll tell you all about entire parakeet villages under bridges, on top of cell phone towers, etc.
I'm an engineer. We've been preparing for a major project in the Midwest. You know what us engineers do while we have nothing to do? We stand around and stare at the parakeet villages (nests) and wonder how the hell they survive the winter here. We know they don't migrate south. What the hell do they eat in December, January, and February? What's more, I've been observing over the years that every year there are more and more of them. They don't bother anyone, so most people don't even notice. But they are everywhere. A couple years ago, I was working on a bridge in Chicago. And there they were under the bridge. Whole village of them. There must have been hundreds or even thousands. We tried to leave them alone. None of us wanted to bother them. And all that time we were working on it, we kept wondering how the hell they survive the harsh winter here. If you do a search on the internet, you're not going to find anything. Shouldn't this be on the discovery channel or something?
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Admin Director Posts: 13038 From: EvC Forum Joined: Member Rating: 2.1 |
Thread copied here from the How do parakeets survive the midwest winter? thread in the Proposed New Topics forum.
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jar Member (Idle past 422 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
The Carolina Parakeet was resident as far north as Ottawa, Canada so I am not surprised at all that feral Parakeets do well in the US today.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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yenmor Member (Idle past 3683 days) Posts: 145 Joined: |
Yeah, but what do they eat in the winter months when everything is frozen for months?
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jar Member (Idle past 422 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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The same things the Carolina parakeets ate.
Lots of animals and birds survive winters jess fine.Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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Tangle Member Posts: 9512 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8 |
We've got them too:
The Kingston Parakeets, also known as the Twickenham Parakeets, are feral Rose-ringed Parakeets (Psittacula krameri) that live in the suburbs around Kingston and Twickenham, South London, England, numbering at least 6,000, with some estimates as high as 50,000 individuals[citation needed]. The origins of the flocks are subject to speculation. No-one seems to know where they came from:
The specific origin of the birds is not known, but they most likely came from a single pair of breeding parakeets which escaped or were released in the mid-1990s. Other origins have been attributed to them: the most popular idea being that they escaped from Ealing Studios, West London, during the filming of The African Queen (which was actually made in the Isleworth Studios) in 1951. Other theories are that they escaped from an aviary during a 1987 hurricane; ...but I like this one best:
or that a pair released by Jimi Hendrix in Carnaby Street, London, in the 1960s, are to blame. Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android |
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9197 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.2 |
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 quote: 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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ringo Member (Idle past 440 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
yenmor writes:
We have a lot of sparrows around here in winter - considerably farther north than you. They eat seeds. Feathers are well-suited to cold weather, airtight on the outside and down-filled on the inside. Yeah, but what do they eat in the winter months when everything is frozen for months? We have nuthatches in winter too. When they fly south, they come here.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17827 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
There are feral parakeets in Europe, too. London famously has a colony. And I saw some in Bonn when I was there a few years back (it was December, so the German winter doesn't scare them).
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8562 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.9
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As a parakeets, or even as a whole flock of keets, you can survive the mid-west winters quite well if you find a nice warm place to live
and wear your winter clothes.
If not then you will end up frozen
with a stick up your ass. A Popcikeet.
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herebedragons Member (Idle past 885 days) Posts: 1517 From: Michigan Joined: |
Really? Are your search capabilities that bad? Have you seen Let me Google that for You before? It makes me laugh. I have wanted an an opportunity to use it, and this would have been a good one. HBDWhoever calls me ignorant shares my own opinion. Sorrowfully and tacitly I recognize my ignorance, when I consider how much I lack of what my mind in its craving for knowledge is sighing for. But until the end of the present exile has come and terminated this our imperfection by which "we know in part," I console myself with the consideration that this belongs to our common nature. - Francesco Petrarca "Nothing is easier than to persuade people who want to be persuaded and already believe." - another Petrarca gem.
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Granny Magda Member Posts: 2462 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 3.8 |
As you can see from this map of the Monk Parakeet's natural range, they already survive in some quite chilly conditions.
Mutate and Survive
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9197 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.2 |
We are told that these critters are from the amazon forest
No we are not. See map above.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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