A Parrot Flies in Brooklyn
MARCH 17, 2007 Listen to this Story
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Coyotes in Los Angeles, sea lions off Seattle, bats in Austin, herons in Baltimore -- who needs the zoo to visit with wild animals? It'd be easy to assume that cities are detrimental to wildlife, but in some cases these creatures are thriving. There are now over a dozen places in the U.S. hosting flocks of feral parrots. And there are about as many legends of how they managed to get here from South America (maybe they escaped from a bird store, or a truck carrying the birds had an accident on the highway, or maybe they're just refugee pets flocking on the lam). However the parrots got here, they certainly generate a lot of excitement in the human world. Weekend America editor Amanda Aronczyk decided to find out how these urban populations, both human and feathered, are cohabitating in the wilds of Brooklyn, N.Y.
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