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Wildlife in Suburbia
By Linda Tancs
If you thought the South American monk parakeet was content to keep company in the canopy of a tropical rainforest, then there’s a lot you don’t know about this little squawker. Sightings of the colorful birds, also known as Quaker parrots, have been reported from Miami, Florida to Brooklyn, New York. In fact, a cluster of them have taken up status as permanent resident aliens in the bedroom community of Edgewater, New Jersey. They brave the northeastern winter by building colossal nests with power lines as furnace heaters. Obviously, this poses a problem. Perhaps they should just dance instead to raise body temperature. Recent studies indicate that species such as this really know how to shake their tail feather. Ray Charles would be proud.
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