Monk parakeets have been flapping around Houston for around 50 years. Having logged just 20 years in the city myself, I feel some reticence calling them an invasive species. Yet, technically, the monk ...
In case you missed it, Jan. 5 was National Bird Day. It brought to mind one of the Lowcountry’s most beautiful lost treasures: the Carolina parakeet. The only parrot native to the continental United ...
Jack Ashby is affiliated with the Natural Sciences Collections Association. One day in August, 1875, a greyish-blue parrot was shot on a small island in the Indian Ocean near Mauritius. It was the ...
It was early May, and Bleu, an Indian ringneck, was out of her cage, as usual. In the chaos of moving day, she flew down the ...