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In the northeastern towns of la county there entire flocks of wild parrots flying around, that are escaped or freed pet parrots or descendants from such pet par
by hristov 9mo ago
In the northeastern towns of la county there entire flocks of wild parrots flying around, that are escaped or freed pet parrots or descendants from such pet parrots.
I guess parrots would not survive in the wild in canada, but if you have parrot you can no longer care for, maybe you could consider releasing it in the la foothills. He will have friends there.
Maybe is the key word here. I am not a parrot expert.
- NewJazz 9mo agoLol please don't release random parrots. Even if they happen to be the species common in LA, if they aren't members of the wild flock they might get bullied.
- nkrisc 9mo ago> I am not a parrot expert. Then why are you giving advice on parrots?
- bregma 9mo agoThey're parroting what they read on the internet.
- bauruine 9mo agoYou never release exotic pets to the wild. Isn't that common knowledge by now? If you can no longer care for an animal bring it to the vet to get it euthanized.
- shevy-java 9mo agoDid you ask the bird whether it wants to be nuked by you - or, by proxy, the vet - here? I don't call murder "euthanization" - that is just propaganda to sell to yourself that you have the right to decide who lives and who does not.
- bauruine 9mo agoReleasing it is just murder by neglect so people don't feel bad about themself that they actually killed their pet just because "they can't care" for it anymore aka they don't want to deal with the minor inconvenience of caring for a pet anymore. Or worse they become a pest that wipes out whole local ecosystems.
- nkrisc 9mo agoRight has nothing to do with it. It’s about power and responsibility. It would be irresponsible to release parrot into an environment that is not its natural habitat.
- unsnap_biceps 9mo agoNo, the vast majority of parrots released into the wild will just die a terrible death. They don't have a flock to live with and don't know how to survive. It's like if you took a bunch of TikTok influencers and threw them into a random forest completely without any support or help. Some will figure it out, but most would not, even if the weather won't kill them right away, they'll eat the wrong thing, drink the wrong thing, or not know how to protect themselves from other animals.
- shevy-java 9mo agoExcept that there are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_parrot#Other https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_parrot#Other How many there are in absolute numbers I don't know, but your depiction of all parrots being too stupid to live in the wild is also incorrect. And other animals die too all of the time, so that is not a good assessment.
- squigz 9mo agoGP didn't say all parrots wouldn't survive - they said a majority wouldn't without a flock, which your link seems to at least partially agree with.
- nkrisc 9mo ago> And other animals die too all of the time That’s exactly their point, the parrots are no different. The majority will die, which is what they said.
- throwup238 9mo agoOh you sweet summer child, you have clearly never lived in Southern California. I can identify the flock by the sound they make in the morning.
- vidarh 9mo agoEntirely missing the point, which is not that they in general can't survive, but that large proportions of animals who have grown up in captivity won't survive if just dumped out in the wild.
- walthamstow 9mo agoLondon has a massive population of feral parakeets, they can survive quite far north of the weather is mild. London is basically an urban forest so that does help. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_parakeets_in_Great_Britain?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_parakeets_in_Great_Brita...
- gizajob 9mo agoLiverpool too. Big flock of them in Sefton park in the south of the city. Pretty nice to see actually!
- 2b3a51 9mo agoThe parakeets have reached Birmingham as well. Often seen in Canon Hill park, Highbury park or Yardley Old Village around the church. Always brightens my day. https://www.paradiseroad.co.uk/the-parakeeting-of-london-an-adventure-in-gonzo-ornithology https://www.paradiseroad.co.uk/the-parakeeting-of-london-an-...
- vidarh 9mo agoI have lots of them showing up outside my office window... E.g. [1] But the occasional survival eventually leading to a breeding population doesn't mean the odds of survival for released/escaped birds who have grown up in captivity isn't really low. [1] https://m.galaxybound.com/@vidar/115909920534715199 https://m.galaxybound.com/@vidar/115909920534715199
- echelon_musk 9mo agohttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/02/rapid-expansion-of-ring-necked-parakeets-in-uk-sparks-concern https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/02/rapid-ex...
- vidarh 9mo agoYeah, the explosion in numbers has been rapid, and they hang out in groups and can be real bullies to other birds so they'll definitely have an impact. On the upside, they're also increasingly supplementing the food supply for peregrine falcons in London (they're apparently easier targets than the pigeons...
- matkoniecz 9mo agoNo, we do not need more invasive species. Please stop giving terrible advise.