Monk Parakeet I Love You Mug: Perfect for Valentine's Day

Wild Monk Parrots mate for life and are fiercely loyal to each other.



Valentine's Day is just around the corner, so it's time to reward your monk parrot-crazy sweetie with Brooklyn Parrots' Lovers Mug. It's just $12.99 and if you order it in the next few days, you'll probably have it by February 14th. Viva Amore!

Video Clip: Quaker Parrots Frolic in Freezing Cold!

Here's another video clip for Valentine's Day. It shows the amorous antics of two wild Quaker Parrots perching on a rusty fire escape in 15 degree February weather.

The clip opens with a female parrot perching alone: she is soon joined by her returning mate. After reintroducing himself, they do some serious beak-to-beak communcation. Later, the pair's juvenile arrives, and Mom and Dad "cool it" in deference to the youngster's adolescent sensibilities.

This clip, like just about every clip we upload, will be making its way into the forthcoming Brooklyn Parrots documentary film.

Love Under an AC Unit

To commemorate Valentine's Day, here's a video clip of a pair of wild Quaker Parrots in Brooklyn who've set up a cozy home under an air conditioner. This affectionate pair does a bit of preening, and a fair share of snuggling, which happens a lot during the winter, because it's a great way to keep warm! This clip, like just about every clip we upload, will be making its way into the forthcoming Brooklyn Parrots documentary film.

Something Special for Valentine's Day

Wild Monk Parrots mate for life and are fiercely loyal to each other.

I usually don't celebrate Valentine's Day. Frankly, the last good one I had was in 2nd Grade, and even that one didn't turn out so well. But the time I've recently spent with wild monk parrots in NYC has restored my interest in the sweet mysteries of love, so I've created a mug featuring a pair of wild monks perched on a cyclone fence whispering sweet parrot nothings to each other.

If you've got a sweetheart who's as parrot crazy as you are, and you want to impress him/her, the Brooklyn Parrots "I Love You" coffee mug might be the perfect gift. It's just $12.99 and if you order it in the next week or so, you'll probably have it by February 14th. All profits go to the parrots in the form of bird seed, fresh treats, bagels and pizza!

In Brooklyn, Love Is In The Air!

A pair of amorous parrots (left) carries on without any regard to the stares that such conduct attracts from other avian observers.

With March Madness behind them, the wild monk parrots of New York City are turning their attention to the serious business of creating their next generation. The actual intimacies required to bring about such a result are conducted within the relative privacy of the rooms within their massive parrot condominia, yet it is obvious from their generally affectionate behavior that the Love Urge is already upon them, and that with any luck at all, eggs will soon be present within such chambers, attended to by the female whose duties, monk parrot experts insist, are shared by other family members, and including the male (anyone who saw the wonderful film, March of the Penguins, will be unsurprised to learn that fatherhood is taken seriously by many birds).

Much work and luck is required before the egg yields a baby, and the fledgling becomes a young Brooklyn parrot capable of negotiating the hazards of living within this rough-and-tumble borough. There are hungry crows which would love to devour a tasty parrot eggs, hungry hawks and falcons which would love to take advantage of the neophyte parrot's first clumsy "first flight," and other hazards that can quickly end this young life in a moment. There will be joy but there may also be pain, and this drama will all play itself out in the next few months, as people pass obliviously below, their mechanized iPod-delivered music shielding them from the life-and-death struggles played out above them.

For now, let us pause at the moment where it all begins: in a kiss between parrots, which in this case occurs high above Brooklyn's Avenue I, on a high-tension wire.