Alex Joseph, a West Indian-born parks worker, rakes the lawn at the grandly gothic Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn when he and his fellow laborers hear what sounds like a flock of sea gulls dive-bombing at their heads. The workers instinctively duck and whip round and look up and see — those crazy green parrots, expertly mimicking the sea gull’s caw.“Man, they do that a couple times a week just to play with our minds,” Joseph said, grinning wide and shaking his head. “They are a crazy bunch of immigrants, those birds.”
They are the wild parrots of Brooklyn, these emerald-feathered yakkers with the wisenheimer sense of humor.
Parrots Have Colonized the Wilds of Brooklyn (Washington Post)
Here’s an entire website dedicated to feral monk parakeets in North America. If you spot one, let these guys know.
Update: BrooklynParrots.com, a weblog
:) Parrots are amazing creatures indeed. They are very inteligent. Does “new” free parrots that are over our backyards, our parks, are a new generation of “free thinkers”.