Stuttgart's wild Amazones - 6
This is one of the about 48 wild Yellow-headed Amazones living in Bad Cannstatt, Stuttgart, Germany.
Endangered where they originate from, this is the only known wild population
outside the Americas.
Funnily this picture of a wild bird was taken in a zoo, the Wilhelma Stuttgart.
But like myself, these birds were just visiting.
They seem to like the vegetation in the Wilhelma and the surrounding parks,
as well as to be near other parrots that live in the zoo.
It is not completely clear where they come from;
what is known is that one day in the year 1984, a male
Yellow-headed Amazone - probably an escaped bird -
turned up in the Wilhelma near the other parrots.
It is believed that someone realized that the bird did pretty well in the wild
and decided to release a female amazone on purpose.
But it couldn't be from the zoo, because they didn't even
have that kind of parrot there, so it probably came from a shop.
Stuttgart's wild Amazones - 6
This is one of the about 48 wild Yellow-headed Amazones living in Bad Cannstatt, Stuttgart, Germany.
Endangered where they originate from, this is the only known wild population
outside the Americas.
Funnily this picture of a wild bird was taken in a zoo, the Wilhelma Stuttgart.
But like myself, these birds were just visiting.
They seem to like the vegetation in the Wilhelma and the surrounding parks,
as well as to be near other parrots that live in the zoo.
It is not completely clear where they come from;
what is known is that one day in the year 1984, a male
Yellow-headed Amazone - probably an escaped bird -
turned up in the Wilhelma near the other parrots.
It is believed that someone realized that the bird did pretty well in the wild
and decided to release a female amazone on purpose.
But it couldn't be from the zoo, because they didn't even
have that kind of parrot there, so it probably came from a shop.