Talk:Feral parrot

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Text and/or other creative content from this version of Pasadena, California was copied or moved into Feral parrots with this edit on 20:09, 13 August 2011. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

And a little American-or-wherever-centric maybe? (Anonymous Coward) 129.199.159.143 (talk) 06:56, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

contested statements removed

Budgerigar Feral Budgerigars have existed since the 1940s in the St Petersburg, Florida area of the United States, but have decreased since the early 1980s. Colder than normal winter temperatures in some years and increased competition from European Starlings appear to be the main reasons for the declining population.{{Fact|date=August 2007}}
Alexandrine Parakeet Often flocking with the naturalized P. krameri populations in Belgium and England are smaller populations of Alexandrine Parakeets (Psittacula eupatria).{{Fact|date=August 2007}}
Monk Parakeet (Quaker Parakeet} Populations of the Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) have established themselves in many areas of the United States and Spain.{{Fact|date=August 2007}}
Many states in the U.S. have now enacted laws banning some of the above species & most particularly monk (aka quaker) Parakeet/Parrot from being sold, bred, or kept as pets.{{Fact|date=August 2007}}
[Rose-ringed Parakeets] are believed (and in some cases documented{{Fact|date=December 2006}}) to have descended from escaped or released pets.

Please don't return any of this information to the article without a citation--BirgitteSB 19:12, 3 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

article is questionably objective; needs citations; etc.

Someone who knows how to do this, please flag this article as "questionably objective" and "needs citations" (and "needs reorganization": why are the things in the "other" category not classified as the ones above it?).

It's also (very?) incomplete; it needs to at least acknowledge that there are many more feral parrots worldwide than are listed here (e.g., http://www.hear.org/alienspeciesinhawaii/waringreports/parrot.htm, http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/global/story.asp?s=10372980, http://www.cityparrots.com/post/the-wild-parrots-of-kailua-kona).

Sorry to just be adding comments without fixing the problems, but I'm not an expert in this area/don't have time/inclination to fix this stuff, but just wanted to point out a few things to those who might be experts/willing.

Aloha, philiptdotcom (talk) 19:17, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Feral" used incorrect

The term feral is used incorrectly here. Feral refers to domesticated animals regaining a life in the wild. Most introduced parrot populations however stem from wild caught birds that where transported trough trade but where not domesticated. The correct term to use is in Introduced of Neozoon.