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Alien J

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Very fun article and film! Thanks for sharing!
 

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We have wild quakers in my area, and I'm always amazed at how different their calls are from my own quaker.

He was found as a hatchling when he fell out of one of their nests, so he's genetically one of them, but has never lived with another quaker. He was raised in a home where the only other bird was a GCC, and he never learned the "local quaker lingo." I take him for walks in a pak-o-bird, and he often sees and hears the wild quakers, and even so, he sounds totally different in his contact and alarm calls. (The two most common calls I hear from the wild group).
 

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We have wild quakers in my area, and I'm always amazed at how different their calls are from my own quaker.

He was found as a hatchling when he fell out of one of their nests, so he's genetically one of them, but has never lived with another quaker. He was raised in a home where the only other bird was a GCC, and he never learned the "local quaker lingo." I take him for walks in a pak-o-bird, and he often sees and hears the wild quakers, and even so, he sounds totally different in his contact and alarm calls. (The two most common calls I hear from the wild group).
Don't know how I missed this! Whereabouts are you that you have wild Quakers? I'd love to hear some and watch their behaviors. Are you able to video them?
 

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I'm in New Orleans, but there are wild quaker colonies in a lot of other U.S. cities, too. The communal nests they build (they're designed like condos, sharing walls with the neighbors) help them stay warm in the winter and survive further north than other parrots can manage.


There are populations of other species, too, in a different assortment of cities. If you've never seen the documentary "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill", I strongly recommend checking it out.
 
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