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 No.2107

Can you spot the parrots? There should be at least two of them.

 No.2108

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Is this them? Spotting birds in photos is way harder than IRL, since you don't get the chance to see them move.

 No.2109

>>2108
Oh fuck, I saved it as an enormous png. Oops.

 No.2110

>>2108
Ayup, that's them. The third one may've moved somewhere else.
>>2109
Well, the OP is an enormous png. Gotta tinker with the settings, I suppose.

 No.2112

I could only spot one >_<

 No.2113

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Monk (quaker) parakeets!
Very cute little guys. Well, not as little as parakeet parakeets, but not as big as regular parrots

 No.2114

>>2113
WOW, how'd you nail down the species? I called it a parrot since colloquially we use the term "loro" to refer to any colorful bird with a hookbill beak. Apparently it's more accurately called a "cotorra" or a "perico" (whose diminutive is "periquito", genetically related to "parakeet"), but those are very rare words in common speech.
Definitely cute, it's great to see them fly around in droves, alongside the rufous thrushes, horneros, hummingbirds, and others. Very colorful time of the year, in terms of birds.

 No.2125

>>2114
>WOW, how'd you nail down the species?
They've been pets here in the US for like 60 years, long enough for abandoned ones to establish colonies up there in New Jersey and NYC. It's not unusual to see them in pet stores alongside conures and the like as a "medium size" bird.

 No.2128

>>2125
Smart birds.

 No.2129

>>2125
Huh. Seems like they've flown all the way to Chicago, too. Interesting.
As for their nests in particular, I've rarely seen them set up shop in transformers, they typically go for the tallest trees around. They've got a looootta them to choose from. It may also be that they leave for the Amazon to the north during Winter, but don't quote me on that.

 No.2130

>>2129
>It may also be that they leave for the Amazon to the north during Winter, but don't quote me on that.
This thread got me curious and one article was saying that Monk parakeets are the only tropical bird in New Jersey capable of surviving the winter. They keep warm in their kind of basket-like nests by staying close together inside, and by making nests near powerline transformers which produce a lot of heat.

 No.2131

yep, found them in less than a minute, one doing a pullup move with their beak actually came 2nd.

 No.2135

>>2130
Yeah, they got some cozy nests going on. The hornero ("oven-er") goes a step further and creates his with clay, setting it up during Autumn in preparation for Winter. I think they even make an inner wall sometimes to split the nest into two "rooms" for further insulation. Smart lil' clayworker birb.
(pic is just a long timelapse of honest work)

 No.2136

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I love how retarded pigeons are

 No.2137

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>>2136
This one made me sad though

 No.2138

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>>2136
I did not know squabs had beaks like that, or that baby pigeons were called squabs in the first place. That shape looks particularly strange to me.
>>2137
Jesus Christ.

 No.2139

>>2138
They kind of like dead chickens, it's very odd

 No.2141

i saw the deleted post

 No.2142

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Important thread.

 No.2206

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Birds coming home




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