Wordless Wednesday: Monk Parakeets in Snow

(Photo: Michael Howell)

Originally brought to the Midwest from South America as captive birds in the late 1970s, over the years a number of Monk Parakeets have escaped captivity and established a thriving colony in Chicago. These subtropical birds remain in Chicago all year round, relying on their haystack-like nests and bird feeders maintained by their human neighbors to see them through our bitterly cold winters.  Four of them live in the trees behind our condo. I was deeply relieved to see them still going strong after the recent polar vortex.

Related Links:

• Wordless Wednesday on Caterpickles

What are you thinking? Cancel reply

Enter your comment here...

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Email (required) (Address never made public)

Name (required)

Website

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

Notify me of new comments via email.

Notify me of new posts via email.

Basic HTML is allowed. Your email address will not be published.

Subscribe to this comment feed via RSS

Δ

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.