The Wild Parrots of Brooklyn Wish You a Happy Independence Day!

A wild Quaker Parrot in Brooklyn poses in front of an American flag.

The wild parrots of Brooklyn wish you a happy Independence Day. Like many who live in America today, they didn't arrive of their own will. In fact, they were involuntarily deported from their native land of Argentina, and have done their best to survive and thrive in a new land that didn't initially accept them.

Their journey here has not been without controversy, but they have persevered, and while I cannot read their minds, I believe they love this land as much as any red-blooded American human does. Yes, they're small, green, and considered by some to be "illegal avians," but in my book they have the hearts of eagles.

May and yours have a happy Fourth of July, be fruitful and multiply, and may your spirit always soar free in these great azure skies.