Lecture: Urban Parrots, Urban Pigeons

Wild urban parrots and pigeons may squabble sometimes, but more often than not, they get along famously well.

BrooklynParrots.com is proud to announce that we have been asked to give a lecture on wild monk parrots to Pigeon People, a New York-based environmental group whose goal is to improve attitudes toward pigeons through public education. The lecture will take place on Sunday, October 16th, at the Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, in Central Park, at 1:00 PM. The Dana Center is located at the northeast corner of the Park at 110th Street.

As I've noted in my photo-comic, Monk Parrot High School Rumble, the wild parrots of Brooklyn and New Jersey have a close, and sometimes contentious relationship with the pigeons in the same area. But despite their occasional squabbling, it's also plain that these two bird species generally get along very well, and, in fact, depend on each other. In my lecture, I hope to illustrate the many ways that wild parrots and wild pigeons get along, ways which range from shared housing to cooperative flocking and feeding.

If you're in the Big Apple on Sunday, October 16th, please come by!

Sincerely,
Steve Baldwin
Webmaster
BrooklynParrots.com