I wrote about everything the global trade in parrots brought to the US, and everything it took from the rest of the world, in my latest piece. Read it here: birdhistory.substack.com/p/parrots-go...
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Worth noting, however, that the two most commonly kept parrots, budgerigars and cockatiels, have never successfully colonized anywhere long-term. There was a budgie colony for a while in FL, but it did not last long. Even in conditions similar to Australia, they are both poor colonizers.
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I came across this table during my research, fascinating that they can hit pretty high numbers but can't sustain them
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And FL is the only place this has happened. They cannot even build up populations within Australia and they are escaping there all the time!
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