Brooklyn Quakers on animal planet.

[Z28Taxman]

The Animal planet had a story on the Quakers in Brooklyn tonight on the Animal planet report. Ditto watched it with me (stared intently at the tv) and he even talked back to them.

If you get a chance to catch it make sure your lovies can watch too! 8)

[Elle]

Sounds like Ditto is trying to tell you he is giving you the okay to adopt a quaker parrot. Now that he had a chance tosee what they look like! :lol

[wesleydnunder]

Amazingly adaptable birds to be able to winter in Brooklin. We have feral Quakers in our area. They build huge nests on the high tension towers that the power company is always having to remove. I've seen flocks of fifty go overhead when I'm fishing on Galveston Bay.

Mark

[Janie]

Dave, sorry I missed the show but maybe they'll air it again. I did sign a petition through e-mail a few weeks ago.

[Z28Taxman]

Sounds like Ditto is trying to tell you he is giving you the okay to adopt a quaker parrot. Now that he had a chance tosee what they look like! :lol

I wish I could adopt a Quaker. Unfortunately they're illegal in Pa. The state will euthanize them on site if you're caught with one. :( :( :(

[Elle]

I wish I could adopt a Quaker. Unfortunately they're illegal in Pa. The state will euthanize them on site if you're caught with one. :( :( :(


Must be why Ditto was okay with you adopting one :lol

[Z28Taxman]

Dave, sorry I missed the show but maybe they'll air it again. I did sign a petition through e-mail a few weeks ago.

It will be on again. Today 12/31 at 3pm, Wednesday 1/4 at 9pm, Thursday 1/5 at 12am, 41m and 1pm.


Amazingly adaptable birds to be able to winter in Brooklin.

Quakers live in the Argentina, Bolivia, Brizil area of South America and have been found quite high in the Andes above the treeline at times, so they're quite accostomed to living in cold snowy weather. They're one of the few if not only Parrots that could survive a cold snowy northeastern winter and breed up here.

According to the animal planet report they were labled an agricultrual pest in Argentina and they attempted to kill them all off. When that didn't work they started shipping them north to help keep the population down.

I wish I could have one. :(

[Z28Taxman]

Must be why Ditto was okay with you adopting one :lol

Well Ditto also likes to talk to the Peragrine falcons when the State has their Falcon cam online so I don't think he's the best judge of what birds should be in here. :eek:

[carmelcandy11703]

It was great, I saw it too. I love Quakers, they are here in Chicago too I read but I always look and only see pigions and accasionally a hawk :(.

[Eliza]

I wish I could adopt a Quaker. Unfortunately they're illegal in Pa. The state will euthanize them on site if you're caught with one. :( :( :(


Same here in NJ :cry:

I actually saw one at a flea market in NJ about a decade ago. A woman was selling various bird supplies and had this entertaining parrot in a cage off to the side. I had never heard of Quakers until then and was sad to realize that they were illegal in NJ (she had bought hers in NC, I believe).

I actually just learned that here in NJ, it's also illegal to own psittacula parakeets (ringnecks) and Patagonian conures, for much the same reason as it is illegal to own quakers :( Truly disheartening b/c I have long wanted an Indian ringneck parakeet.

For more information on the birds from the Animal Planet show (which I managed to miss AGAIN), check out www.brooklynparrots.com. Really interesting.

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