To the editor: As Board Chair of the Plumery, a nonprofit group whose mission is to offer a haven for displaced and relinquished parrots, I’m grateful for the November 18 assertion “I really like LA’s noisy parrots. Poachers ought to depart these wild creatures alone.”
Nobody can actually validate how parrot colonies in southern and central California have been established. However a couple of thrive and discover environments that assist how they stay and what they eat.
On the Carpinteria Avocado Pageant final October, three of us from Plumery spoke with individuals from neighborhoods talked about within the assertion. All of them liked having parrots close by and of their backyards, giving them a chook’s eye view into the comfortable lives of those unique birds.
The despicable poachers who seize these harmless parrots solely serve for instance how objectification and commodification have changed ethics and empathy. The ache and struggling they trigger isn’t solely inexcusable, however legal.
Leslie Rugg, Santa Barbara
..
To the editor: A number of years in the past one in every of our native inexperienced parrots flew down from an oak tree in my yard and sat on my shoulder. It spent the afternoon with me, and even went into the home with me for a glass of water. After a number of hours it flew again as much as the oak tree after which to the east.
Our native troupe comes by from time to time and I at all times hope my buddy will cease in once more. It might be an immigrant, however its ancestors have been on the continent lengthy earlier than mine.
John Sherwood, Topanga
..
To the editor: I used to be delighted to learn the article in regards to the wild parrots which have made the Alhambra their residence. Higher parrots than peacocks, I at all times say.
We purchased our home right here in 1975, and for many years crows and their prolonged households have lived rent-free within the enormous pine tree in our entrance yard. In the future about six years in the past we heard loud, frenetic whoops, rustles and clicks from the previous tree, and the racquet went on for hours.
The following day the crows have been gone and the brilliant inexperienced parrots had taken up residence.
The victorious however flighty parrots clearly did not care a lot for his or her new digs, as they’ve since taken up everlasting residence in my neighbour’s palm tree within the again backyard.
Oh, I nearly forgot to say: The crows are again.
Ramona Saenz, Alhambra