Meeko pays a visit

[Big Wallaby]

Regular conures are green, but they are in their own way just as beautiful as the sun conures. There is one at a local flea market, AWESOME personality, loves to be handled, that I want to get. Now, just to come up with the extra $200.

[Big Wallaby]

And then you have the larger eclectus. Females are red, males are green.

By the way, this is all my wife's fault. She introduced me to the joy of having birds.

[CBeilby]

By the way, this is all my wife's fault. She introduced me to the joy of having birds.

Including, no doubt, the dubious "joy" of cage cleaning?

[delsdad]

Regular conures are green, but they are in their own way just as beautiful as the sun conures. There is one at a local flea market, AWESOME personality, loves to be handled, that I want to get. Now, just to come up with the extra $200.

SOmeone is selling one of these beautiful birds for only 200$ ?? I would expect it to be well over a thousand dollars !

[hobie16]

In today's local paper.

Kia‘i Moku: Release of pet birds poses threat to ecology
March 13, 2011 - By LISSA FOX

"This would be a great place to release Walter," a Michigan visitor said recently to his wife. Their mischievous dusky conure, a small parrot native to the Amazon, likely would find Maui an ideal home. Maui's climate is similar enough to the creature's native habitat that he would be comfortable at night, and with all the plants introduced from South America, he would find plenty of food to eat. Unfortunately, our houseguests were not the first people to consider releasing their pet bird here.

Introduced birds have a tremendous impact on the ecology of Hawaii. They compete with native birds for food and nesting resources. Cavity-nesting seabirds, like the wedge-tailed shearwater, face competition from feral parrots for cliffside nesting sites. Introduced birds bring diseases, to which native birds have no immunity. Avian pox and malaria decimated the population of native birds at lowland elevations. more...

[DisneyMom]

Anyone who has visited Ocean Beach in San Diego may have seen (and HEARD)the flock/gang of wild Macaws overhead.Lookout for incoming bombs

One trip to the Candy Cane near Disneyland had a parakeet in the Breakfast Area competing for crumbs....The Fattest Sparrows I've seen live there ;)

I understand that Hawaii attracts critters from all over the world, I've heard snakes can even climb up into plane wheel wells

[joanna71985]

My family used to have a conure (I believe she was a Brazilian conure). We had her for many years, before she passed away. She was a great bird :(

[mapo]

By the way, this is all my wife's fault. She introduced me to the joy of having birds.

EPCOT has seagulls...for free. Please pick up a few

[hobie16]

I understand that Hawaii attracts critters from all over the world, I've heard snakes can even climb up into plane wheel wells

It's not that Hawaii attracts critters, it's people either bring them in to either resolve a human caused problem or smuggle them in.

When ships started coming to the islands they dropped off rats. Somebody got the bright idea that importing mongooses would get rid of the rats. Good plan except the mongooses are out during the day and the rats are nocturnal. The mongooses went after the local birds while the rats continued to breed.

Hawaii is psyco about snakes because of what happened on Guam. Brown Tree Snakes were introduced on Guam and, with no natural predators, wiped out the bird population.

We get snakes on planes stories about once a month. It's always a front page story. Where's Samuel L. Jackson when you need him?

If someone is caught with any reptiles they can figure on a huge fine and maybe some jail time.

[Big Wallaby]

EPCOT has seagulls...for free. Please pick up a few

I said birds. Not sky rats.

I have to apologize, as what I just said is an insult to rats everywhere.