Wild Pizza-Eating Parrots Receiving More Attention From Scientists

Wild Parrots on Brooklyn's Bedford Avenue enjoying a slice of Brooklyn pizza.

I'm happy to say that at least one of my photos showing Brooklyn's wild Quaker Parrots eating pizza has been selected to appear in a forthcoming textbook on Urban Wildlife Issues. Apparently, the fact that Myiopsitta Monachus (AKA "Dem Green Boids") has successfully adapted to the availability of world-class pizza in both Brooklyn and New Jersey is being taken very seriously by evolutionary biologists.

I am delighted that this remarkable behavior is finally receiving the academic attention it deserves.


A wild New Jersey parrot competes with a local starling for a particularly choice crust of New Jersey-style pizza.