There is a palm tree across the street from my house and two parrots live in its dead fronds.
They hide in the dead palm fronds of their home tree or perch on their palm's green fronds above.
These feathered neighbors are not natives to my town; they come from the Pantanal of South America, which is the world's largest wetlands. Though the Pantanal is not as famous as its neighbor, the Amazon Rainforest, it is just as important for its amazing wildlife and it is this far away region that has given my neighborhood these lovely birds.
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They are Black-hooded Parakeets,
also called Nanday Parakeets or Nanday Conures. In Latin, they are
Nandayus nenday. Every evening as the sun sets, the two of them fly
around by my house and call loudly to each other: "kree-ah, kree-ah".
They hide in the dead palm fronds of their home tree or perch on their palm's green fronds above.
Often they stay together on the nearest lamppost, basking in the last rays of twilight.
These feathered neighbors are not natives to my town; they come from the Pantanal of South America, which is the world's largest wetlands. Though the Pantanal is not as famous as its neighbor, the Amazon Rainforest, it is just as important for its amazing wildlife and it is this far away region that has given my neighborhood these lovely birds.
The din only lasts for a few minutes. After the gloaming, all is quite again. The parakeets are silent for another day.
More photos at Flickr.
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