Monk parakeet - Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
Parrots in New York City? The story goes that a shipment of black-market monk parakeets somehow got loose and established themselves in Green-Wood Cemetery. Though originally groundskeepers attempted to remove the birds, it was found that they displaced feral rock pigeons whose droppings harmed various brownstone structures; the droppings of the parakeets did not...so they get to stay...
Monk parakeet - Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
Parrots in New York City? The story goes that a shipment of black-market monk parakeets somehow got loose and established themselves in Green-Wood Cemetery. Though originally groundskeepers attempted to remove the birds, it was found that they displaced feral rock pigeons whose droppings harmed various brownstone structures; the droppings of the parakeets did not...so they get to stay...