In southern Florida, utility companies now grapple with monk parakeets and the massive, nettlesome nests they build atop transmission poles. |
Parrots, parakeets, bleeding heart doves, cuckoos, owls and large amounts of small birds can still be seen. |
Bird watchers are drawn from all over the world in search of species such as parrots, parakeets, hyacinth macaws, and wood storks. |
The parakeets seem to be immune to scarecrows, things that go bang and all the other bird-scaring devices. |
The parakeets show particular skill and must have been worked from inside the ewer using a snarling iron. |
We thought we saw parakeets on a tree in the distance, but we didn't investigate this time. |