The monkeys and parrots caught up in the California gold rush

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19 points·samclemens··8 comments

Not totally related, but reminds me of the flock of South American parrots you can find roaming around Nob/Telegraph Hill in San Francisco today

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/parrots-telegraph-hill

Pah

Let me introduce you to the endemic Parakeets of London....... and the urban legends they were introduced to the city by Jimi Hendrix and/or Catherine Hepburn.

https://londonist.com/london/great-outdoors/london-s-parakee...

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/06/the-great-gre...

Here in Redmond, Washington, famous for Microsoft, mink farms were the thing just before the tech boom in the 1980s. It didn’t work out very well. Many farmers just let the minks go. So now we people with chickens have to worry about them as predators along with hawks, eagles, raccoons, coyotes, and bobcats. A mink can squeeze in through a tiny tiny hole in the fence.

Seattle's got some wild parrots. Article's a bit dated but I'm pretty sure they're still around.

https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=20030205&slug...

The LA area has a population of wild green parrots as well. Supposedly there's a stable population of a few thousand, and they don't do much harm as they subside on non-native plants. They survive by navigating the different micro-climates in the LA area so if you keep an eye out, you'll notice them the same time each year, or when the weather is good for them.

https://pethelpful.com/wildlife/Wild-Parrots-Multiplying-in-...

https://elementalreports.com/urbanization/2018/06/08/parrots...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3MpCjGXhRU

Albuquerque has roaming packs of Chihuahua dogs! Lost pets.

Possibly unrelated, but there used to be a healthy population of "wild" parrots in Bakersfield, of all places.

same with palo alto

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