Mystery Parrot Sighted in Edgewater

Note: the above photograph is a PhotoShop alteration showing what Edgewater's "White Parrot" may look like.

Two separate sightings in the last two weeks of a pure-white parrot in Edgewater, New Jersey, have electrified wild parrot-watchers in the town. According to eyewitnesses who have spied the bird flying around town, the parrot is too small to be an escaped cockatoo, nor have any escaped cockatoos been reported in the area. Initial speculation was that the white parrot may in fact have been a pigeon mistaken for a parrot (both species co-habitate on River Road). But the man who spotted the white bird on Monday perched on a fence in Veteran's Park insists it's a parrot, not a pigeon.

No photographic evidence of the white parrot yet exists. Local birders plan to mount multiple expeditions soon to capture a picture of it. Some speculate that this bird may be a color-mutated Quaker parrot. We hope to have more information on this bird soon.