*@SUBJECT:the future of wild parrots.                                 N
-> The opinion is that they are releases or escapees. Since your area is
Well for one thing there's too dang many OF them for them to be
escapees.  I'm also pretty sure that tame parrots suddenly finding
themselves loose will flock up with whatever they find.  They are just
'social' critters.
-> where the quarentine station is, and also where they are held when
-> confiscated... both can happen.
These are definitly NOT from the quarantine station.  They might lose
one or two a YEAR, but since that's what they DO out there, I'd bet big
money they don't lose enough to worry about. Twenty times as many birds
go home in the worker's lunchboxs than what might ESCAPE!
-> I can also believe, as you do,
-> that there are migratory flocks. This is what the Thick Bill use to
-> do.
There are wild flocks of parrots not 100 miles from here in Me xico that
DON'T come this far north, but these that are here almost year round are
NATIVE birds.  Their migration is very SHORT both in time and distance
traveled.
 ^..^
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