In a message to Rich Veraa, Elvis Hargrove wrote:
-> 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
EH> But weren't there _always_ wild flocks in Florida?  Indiginous birds
EH> of several varieties?
Sure.  But not indigenous parrots (in this century, anyway).
EH> When I visited Orlando nearly fifty years
EH> ago, I remember something green and squawky flying around in the
EH> grapefruit grove where my sister lived.
No doubt.  But they'd have been feral birds, too -- though some of 'em might 
trace their ancestry back 400 years to the Spanish.  The only native 
psittacines in this area were the Carolina parakeets that went extinct around 
1900.  The only parrots indigenous to the contiguous US were the Carolina 
parakeet and the Thickbill parrot west of the Mississippi.
       Cheers,
           Rich
http://www.netside.net/~rveraa/
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