Maple Leaf’s Scarlet-fronted Parakeets are back.
Or at least one is – on 12th Avenue Northeast just north of Northeast 89th Street, at 8 a.m.
We last posted on the feral flock in February 2015. We first wrote about them in 2010:
The flock has been around for decades, at least since the early 1990s, and possibly got started when bird-lovers discovered their pet parakeets were too loud to keep in the house. Local lore has it that the birds winter in Maple Leaf and spend summer vacations at Seward Park.
The size of the flock varies, but there don’t seem to be as many now as eight or 10 years ago, when a dozen or more parakeets would descend on the neighborhood. Over time they have been called parrots, Crimson-fronted parakeets, Red-fronted Conures and Mitred conures.
(Aratinga wagleri photo courtesy Dennis Paulson.)
