The above photo is actually of Quaker Parrots that are flourishing in Brooklyn but one city parrot blog got a tip that the colorful birds have had sightings in Harlem as of recent. About a half dozen parrots have been seen visiting a bird feeder at Lenox and 127th for the past month and this would be the first time that these exotic birds would have been seen in Harlem. Wild parrots have had a rough time setting up in Manhattan since a Washington Heights nest at Riverside Park was apparently destroyed by vandals last year but there has been reports of small colony in the Manhattan Valley section of the Upper West Side (104th and Amsterdam). Before anyone gets too excited, there is also a possibility that the birds of the Harlem sighting might just be the said Manhattan Valley colony making a visit up north. Read more in the Brooklyn Parrots blog:
LINK. Photo via City Parrots flickr group.
I had seen these last summer at the H arlem Pier.
ReplyDeletequite beautiful.i was surprised that they could survive an urban enviornment but a neighbor told me that they have a nest in Riverbank State Park
I saw a pair at 136th and Broadway last fall. They were a beautiful and noisy splash of color on a cold, gray day.
ReplyDeletetoday saw 5 of them in the alley behind 137th street.
ReplyDeleteI've been seeing a company of green parrots while running along the Hudson River Greenway. The birds are setting up home underneath the Henry Hudson Parkway around 153rd St.
ReplyDeleteJust saw them today, 12/31/12 on 120th and Madison!
ReplyDelete4 showed up at my bird feeder today at 128th & Madison. I'd never seen them in the neighborhood--what a cool surprise!
ReplyDeleteCan someone over in Madison take a photo and send them in to us at harlembespoke@gmail.com
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