Memorial Day 2008, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn
Wild Quaker Parrot rises above markers for American Civil War Dead, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, May 25, 2008, by Steve Baldwin
posted by steve baldwin @ 7:27 PM
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Wild Quaker Parrot rises above markers for American Civil War Dead, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, May 25, 2008, by Steve Baldwin
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Tango in America is a thriller starring a little green parrot from Argentina who's forcefully brought to the USA to be sold into captivity. You can buy it at Amazon.com or read the first four chapters for free. According to one reviewer, it's "North By Northwest meets The Godfather, starring parrots!"
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Photo-Essay: A Bronx Tale: The Great Baby Quaker Parrot Rescue |
Photo-Essay: Wild Parrots at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery Thriving in Springtime |
New Video Clips and Production Notes From the Brooklyn Parrots Movie |
Holiday Poem: A Brooklyn Parrot Christmas! |
Photo-Essay: Edgewater's Big Wild Parrot Flock |
Photo-Essay: March of the Monk Parrots! |
New York's Wild Parrots Go Bonkers For Berries! |
Photo-Essay: Quaker Parakeets: Master Architects of the Bird World! |
Photo-Essay: Hawk Attack in Brooklyn! |
The New Boids in Town (Baby Quaker Parrots Storm Brooklyn) |
Photo-Essay: Monk Parrots Invade New Jersey Beaches! |
Photo-Essay: Parrots Perch at Brooklyn's Gateway to Eternity (the Greenwood Cemetery Parrots) |
Photo-Essay: The Fabulous Wild Parrots of Chicago |
Check out the Brooklyn Parrots on Animal Planet! |
Photo-Essay: Brooklyn's Hard-Working 8th Avenue Parrots |
Photo-Essay: March Monk Parrot Madness! |
NYC Wild Parrots Bid Farewell to Snow |
Were You a Monk Parrot in a Past Life? Take the Quiz! |
Do Brookyn Parrots Eat Pizza? Of Course They Do! |
Photo-Essay: The Miracle on Avenue I |
Squawking At the Moon: The Wild Parrots of Bay Ridge (Revisited) |
Photo-Essay: Quaker Parrots: Master Architects of the Bird World |
Photo-Essay: The Parrots of December |
Wild Parrots in the Snow! |
Photo-Essay: The Wild Parrots of The Bronx |
Photo-Essay: The Wild Parrots of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn |
Photo-Comic: The Surfin' Parrots of Puddle Beach
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Monk Parrot High School Rumble!
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Photo-Essay: Wild Parrots of Brooklyn
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Monk Parrot Links
- Monk Parakeets at Brooklyn College: Invaders from the South?
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- The Quaker Parakeet Society
- EdgewaterParrots.com (campaign to save the Edgewater parrots)
- The Invasive Species Weblog
Parrot Links
- The Alex Foundation (research into parrot intelligence)
- The Araproject (feral macaws in the Netherlands)
- The Bailey Foundation (parrot rescue, rehabilitation, and adoption in Pennsylvania)
- Echo's Haven Bird Sanctuary (free-flight bird rescue community)
- FlyingColors-NC.com (parrot rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and sanctuary in North Carolina)
- FosterParrots.com (parrot rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and sanctuary)
- FreeParrots.net (parrots in the wild)
- The Maspeth Bird Haven (NYC area parrot refuge and rehabilitation)
- Parrot Trust - USA (info on parrots in the wild)
- PlannedParrotHood.com (an info-rich parrot portal)
- ParrotsInternational.org (parrots in the wild)
- ParrotChronicles.com (for pet parrot owners)
- Adopt a homeless parrot! (petfinder.org)
- ThePerch.Net (online parrot-oriented community)
Famous Pet Quakers
- Stanley of Stanley's Quakerville
- A-waywithwords.net (dedicated to the legendary Fonzie)
- Max, the first responder (Canadian parrot performs amazing tricks)
Parrot Art!
- The Claudia Moss Gallery: Fantastic oil paintings of parrots
- Gloria Clifford's colorful parrot portraits
Interesting Parrot Products
- BirdTricks.com has some helpful parrot behavior tips and training resources.
- Texas-based distiller Raileen makes some incredible Monk Parakeet-branded rum (for human consumption)
About Me
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- Name:Steve Baldwin
- Location:New York, New York, United States
Steve Baldwin is a marketing manager in the fun and exciting world of Search Engine Marketing. In his spare time, he documents the lives of wild monk parrots in New York. Steve is an author who has written several books, Netslaves (McGraw-Hill, 1999) and Netslaves II (Allworth Press, 2003). Netslaves was called "one of the best business books of 1999" by Library Journal. His new book, Tango in America, features a parrot as its heroine. He has a B.A. from Fordham University in New York City.
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