Black-capped chickadees, dark-eyed juncos and cardinals congregate around a backyard feeder as birdseed falls to the grass like sprinkles. Suddenly, from the sky comes a flash of vivid green and blue, ...
Like some now-ubiquitous celebrity who seems in retrospect to have always been around (think the cast of Seinfeld), I can’t remember the first time I ever laid eyes on a monk parakeet in the Texas ...
Monk parakeets have been flapping around Houston for around 50 years. Having logged just 20 years in the city myself, I feel some reticence calling them an invasive species. Yet, technically, the monk ...
For over 60 years, green-feathered Monk parakeets have darted across the Crescent City, squawking from telephone lines and nesting in power poles. Aside from their unique preference for urban nesting, ...
SAN ANTONIO – Peacocks and parakeets - two birds you might not have known live in the Alamo City. After KSAT published a story last week about wild peacocks roaming San Antonio, a viewer sent in an ...