More than 800 electric customers in Amityville lost power for just under an hour Thursday after a monk parakeet nest perched atop a utility pole made contact with electrical equipment, tripping local ...
Black-capped chickadees, dark-eyed juncos and cardinals congregate around a backyard feeder as birdseed falls to the grass like sprinkles. Suddenly, from the sky comes a flash of vivid green and blue, ...
A pair of Monk Parakeets sitting on a powerline just outside their nest in Stratford. The nests can weigh up to 200 pounds or more. PHOTO KEVIN BURGIO '10 (CLAS)/UCONN The record-breaking snow across ...
This is DAY TO DAY. I'm Alex Chadwick. In Connecticut, bird lovers are crying `fowl' over the fate of an exotic species. The group Friends of Animals considers the monk parakeet to be intelligent and ...
A little-known, distinctive subspecies of Monk Parakeet, Myiopsitta monachus luchsi, was observed during 13 days from December 1981 to March 1982 in the arid intermontane valleys in south central ...