control tower (Monk's nest)
alleyview behind 1217 E. 54th Street
www.chicagowilderness.org/CW_Archives/issues/winter2003/m...
"The bird's squawk sounds like a cross between a chirp and the hee-haw screech of a rusty pump. Its bright green plumage clashes with the dignified church steeples and ivy-covered bricks of its Hyde Park neighborhood. For 22 years, feral monk parakeets have lived in this southern part of Chicago, draping their twiggy nests over tree branches, electrical poles, roof rafters, and satellite dishes. This raucous caucus of about 200 birds is the coldest, and perhaps the oldest, colony of monk parakeets in the United States." -- Chicago Wilderness Magazine, Winter 2003
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHKl0euhZI0&list=RDyHKl0euhZI...
control tower (Monk's nest)
alleyview behind 1217 E. 54th Street
www.chicagowilderness.org/CW_Archives/issues/winter2003/m...
"The bird's squawk sounds like a cross between a chirp and the hee-haw screech of a rusty pump. Its bright green plumage clashes with the dignified church steeples and ivy-covered bricks of its Hyde Park neighborhood. For 22 years, feral monk parakeets have lived in this southern part of Chicago, draping their twiggy nests over tree branches, electrical poles, roof rafters, and satellite dishes. This raucous caucus of about 200 birds is the coldest, and perhaps the oldest, colony of monk parakeets in the United States." -- Chicago Wilderness Magazine, Winter 2003
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHKl0euhZI0&list=RDyHKl0euhZI...