In a message to Fran Warwick, Elvis Hargrove wrote:
EH> *@SUBJECT:the future of wild parrots.                               
-> The opinion is that they are releases or escapees. Since your area is
EH> Well for one thing there's too dang many OF them for them to be
EH> escapees.  I'm also pretty sure that tame parrots suddenly finding
EH> themselves loose will flock up with whatever they find.  They are
EH> just 'social' critters.
More likely, they're the _descendants_ of escapees.  We have bunches of them 
in Florida; there's a huge flock of quaker 'keets in the southern part of the 
county, and one of mongrel amazons in the north (centered a few blocks from 
here).  They are one NOISY gang of birds :-)
Newly escaped birds either get re-captured, et by hawks, or find their way to 
a feral flock.
       Cheers,
           Rich
http://www.netside.net/~rveraa/
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