Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:52:41 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Maurice Barnhill Organization: University of Delaware Subject: Re: a missing parrot MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Monk Parakeets occupy the temperate zone in South America and are reputed to be better able than average to handle cold weather -- including apparently finding warm places to build their nests! Whether Lilac-crowneds, which I believe are tropical- or at least semitropical-zone parrots would be as hardy is an interesting question. Susan Hoffmann wrote: > > I don't know myself, but I asked a similar question about monk parakeets > that we have at the Brooklyn College campus (I live in NY, and subscribe to > MDOsprey for my visits to my parents near NNMC), and was told that it really > depends on having a warm place to roost and enough food. And that they would > eat whatever the local flora could provide, not necessarily what they would > eat in their tropical homes. The monk parakeets, of course, build those huge > stick communal nests. At Brooklyn College they built the nests on the > athletic field light posts so that of course would be warm! > ... > S. Hoffmann -- Maurice Barnhill, mvb@udel.edu http://www.physics.udel.edu/~barnhill/ Physics Dept., University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================