In a message to Rich Veraa, Jerry Rudoff wrote:
JR> Hi Rich...an interesting topic here....With the great success the
JR> quakers have experienced (they are ALL over my neighborhood), why do
JR> you suppose that cockatiels have such a hard time in the wild here?
Prolly because this area is humid, and closer to the South American jungles 
where quakers come from than it is to the dry Australian desert that is the 
'tiel's natural habitat.
       Cheers,
           Rich
http://www.netside.net/~rveraa/
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