How These Amazon Parrots Ended Up in Snowy Germany | Wild to Know

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🦜 Parrots are known for being adaptable, but you might not expect to see them in the trees of snowy Stuttgart. Yet it’s true: Around 50 yellow-headed Amazon parrots live in this German city. And they don’t just survive here - they thrive.
From making the most of the daily commute to major success in breeding, the Stuttgart parrots are of great interest to conservationists. With wild parrot numbers in sharp decline and more cities across the globe reporting urban parrot populations, could they offer hope for their species’ future?
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0:00 Lets go! City Parrots
0:55 Examples around the World
01:24 Germany Parrots
01:54 Where do the Parrots come from?
02:11 Back into the Nest!
03:02 Winter hits hard!
04:11 How are the wild Parrots doing?
04:56 Why these City Parrots are Important!
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[@graffic13]

I would love for a ornithologist to catch band and DNA test these birds... I would love to know if they are all related or or if they came from a larger group of unrelated birds.

[@DarylMCDeath]

The biggest flock is in Cologne!

[@aussieausdeutschland4245]

At least it isn't the Australian Magpie. A beautiful singing messenger of pain,death and terror.

[@uabir8338]

BIRB ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@thomasmleahy6218]

My smartphone can't download your links. I've had it for 4 days. HELP

[@doviemeh]

As an owner of DYH amazon parrot, I am not surprise how these tropical birds thrive on a snowy and cold place like Stuttgart. These birds are really smart and very adaptable. I remember the 1st time I saw my bird's adaptability when I fed him some hard pellets for food and he grabbed a piece with his foot and dunked it to his water bowl to soften it.

[@huascar66]

They are incredibly intelligent, aren't they?

[@altheadawn2531]

How's that intelligence ?? That's common sense 😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@iwillhaveyourorder5174]

@@altheadawn2531 its not tho, for humans yes, but for most animals, they don't connect the dots of hard food becoming soft in water.

[@dzudemlow]

@@altheadawn2531 Congratulations mate, you got the intelligence of a bird! =)

[@Mateus01234]

​@@dzudemlowdon't insult the birds, please!

[@King0neEurope]

Other german cities like Mainz, Wiesbaden and Köln also have stable parrot populations... I love them

[@bingewatchforever1587]

And Heidelberg.

[@ritahorvath8207]

Wiesbaden was first . 🇩🇪 🦜

[@KBriley]

@@ritahorvath8207 Yes. There are hundreds of parakeets now

[@selmag5819]

+ düsseldorf

[@Engifarting456]

this is bad for the native birds being outcompeted

[@teria7835]

They not only have growing populations in Stuttgart they have wandered up the river quite some hundred kilometers north. They thrive.

[@chuggermagic]

I recall seeing one in Zurich years ago and being baffled I never really talked about it I thought it was an escaped pet

[@carstenbiemann]

There is also a colony in Wiesbaden.

[@MK-ev5rz]

Düsseldorf is full of parrots.

[@TheSilentW]

There are huge colonies in Bonn and Cologne, too. Quite fascinating to see a green cloud of birds above your head. But they are quite noisy and have developed a nasty habit of carving caves into the isolation foam on the outer walls of buildings! ;-)

[@ghostD0C]

Yeah they seem to have colonized almost the entire length of the Rhine Valley by now.

[@sethnaugle984]

That lovebird poking their tiny little head out the cactus is just adorable.

[@PortiaFimbriata]

They're not only in Suttgart. There are actually more in Cologne or Karlsruhe and Mainz. The whole Rhine and Main regions are populated xD

[@raraavis7782]

I read, that there are about 15.000 or so wildliving Parakeets in German cities. So much nicer then doves 😅

[@matthiasstrunz1343]

Different kind. Alexandersittig and a smaller kind in the rhine cities

[@raraavis7782]

@@matthiasstrunz1343 Oh, so that's what they are. I was wondering, if they're the same, as I remember them as smaller and all green. They pretty much stay high up in the trees, though, so I have never seen one up close.

[@matthiasstrunz1343]

They are also from india i think. And in the 1000 nds… i love them when they are flying in great numbers from the sleeping trees at the rhine into the city each morning…they are loud 😂😂@@raraavis7782

[@d.b.2215]

No, so far only Stuttgart has these yellow headed amazons

[@brycekirkham6896]

I've heard of parrots living in cities before, but not these ones in Germany until now. Great video!

[@terramater]

Hi Bryce! Yeah this comes as quite a surprise doesn´t it! 🦜

[@indrahx5905]

@@terramater I did know that we have Alexandrine parakeets in Germany (although I've only seen them on TV), but Amazon parrots are a big surprise

[@borisnoone]

There's a large colony of monk parakeets living in Chicago, where winters are much harsher than in Stuttgart. They've been in the city since the late 60s and by now have spread from their original turf in Hyde Park to several other neighborhoods. I'm not sure about their total numbers, but my best guess is several hundred.

[@eltondelgado4289]

I found parrot in Lisbon and Amsterdam 🤣

[@erik5374]

Dutch cities are full of rose-ringed parakeets from south asia.

[@thomashoffmann1426]

If I remember correctly, the story for Stuttgart is as follows: a single parrot escaped from a lady in the late 60s or early 70s. It could not be captured and flew around Schlossgarten. A group of people joined together, bought a partner of the opposite sex and released it. That was the start of this colony. Stuttgart Zoo, the Wilhelma, is close by at the end of Schlossgarten and they have captive Amazon parrots. Once in a while a free parrot will come to visit and sits on the top of the cage, while the zoo parrots looks from the inside. A little bit heartbreaking. On the other hand, I am regularly in the public Leuze pool at the end of Schlossgarten, close to the river Neckar. And it is always fun to see them and hear them talking to each other while flying by 🙂

[@DEVINdevdev]

These parrots have been in Netherlands for years, long time ago some dude I met who worked at Amsterdam airport told that 15 or more years ago bunch of parrots escaped from airplane cargo. I do not know if this is true.

[@Radnick0024]

I assume more were added later on? That'd imply they're an inbred colony if it started with just one pair 🤔

[@onurji4311]

Yeah I also grew up with a slightly different story :D When I was a kid, someone told me that they escaped from Wilhelma and grew in population over the years. It made sense, because they always fly around Wilhelma and Rosensteinbrücke etc.

[@fuzzywzhe]

I don't see how a pair of parrots could produce a stable population, because they would be wildly inbred.

[@silver6071]

@@onurji4311I was told the same

[@gothia1715]

I am from Stuttgart. We see those parrots as our Cities mascots. They just belong to it after all those decades :) Very smart and adaptable birds! And listening to their talk is priceless.

[@PinkbellyKingdom]

I'm glad to hear people love them! I was kind of worried if they were treated like pigeons. Pigeons are treated pests and are hunted down in some parts of the world which is kind of sad.

[@madriditunes7021]

​@@PinkbellyKingdomThey are a plague, even killing them. The Spanish capital is infested with this species, they are very aggressive birds and they kill other species of birds. Parks that had more than 15 species of birds, now have only 3 or 4 due to this plague.

[@Alswat100]

I'm shocked! Don't some people hunt them to keep them as pets?

[@gothia1715]

@@Alswat100 Havent heared about such a thing happening. The birds also spend most of their time in very tall trees, good luck getting there. Its also much more convenient to get a Parrot from a pet shop.

[@Alswat100]

@gothia1715 Some parrots cost more than 1000$. So I do believe that some people would try to capture them

[@ennykraft]

I live in Stuttgart and love these birds. It's amazing how they managed to survive here. There are also very large populations of ringneck parrots in the Rhine area.

[@blackbirdsnake3107]

Yeah I wanted to say that around 2008 a lot of them escaped the Düsseldorf zoo if I remember correctly

[@suoquainen]

I want some to come over to Berlin. I want more colorful birds on my terrace.

[@Engifarting456]

they shouldnt be there

[@stirlingmoss9637]

Hi. Can you tell me about the AfD party please? UK news is reporting it but without any useful information...

[@suoquainen]

@@stirlingmoss9637 Really, from birds to politics? I think your wrong here. Use the search field.

[@silverlve70]

Mother Nature continues to prove that she will overcome and adapt.

[@terramater]

Hi silver070! That is true indeed 🦜🌍

[@Engifarting456]

that's exactly why lionfish in the carribean is a issue rn

[@exposingproxystalkingorgan4164]

The parrots probably learn the local languages quickly. 😂

[@Greensei571]

I’m from Stuttgart and when I go jogging, the parrots sit in the trees and talk. One day in the afternoon I heard a some cry like a child saying "Daddy, help me", so desperate that I thought it was a child. I didn't know where the child was, but then I saw that it was coming from a tree, it was the parrot they are very smart and when you walk in this place you can hear many children’s voices they imitate perfectly in German language.

[@legendarygigan9855]

@@Greensei571the question is where did it hear that from??????

[@xyz7572]

@@Greensei571wow, that must have been quite the experience! I bet they realised that saying that got people’s attention, so they say it to see people run around on the street below 😂 I hope the original kid got help from their dad 😅

[@myriamickx7969]

Same around Brussels, Belgium which is crowded with colonies of Himalayan ringnecked parakeets, mostly coming for a little zoo that went bankrupt 50 years ago and released all its birds. They are doing fine, thank you.

[@jokuvaan5175]

Reminds me of Barnacle geese in Helsinki Finland. They are migratory birds that do fly over the area but they usually nest in the arctic areas. A zoo in Helsinki decided to give up their geese and released them during a migration season in hopes that they would join their kind. Well....there are now well over 6000 of them in the capital area every summer as they decided to return to that area to nest.

[@tresenie]

And they are not even the only species, one of the others is weaving giant nests in the region of Ukkel.

[@myriamickx7969]

@tresenie When I was living in Brussels, my vet told me that another species of parakeets than the Himalayan ringnecked had also colonised Brussels, but I don't remember its name.

[@SP-ki5gn]

@@tresenie Monk Parakeet.

[@GuyWets-zy5yt]

Indeed, I was working in a shop in 73 or 74 when pple talk abt them, made their home in a garage aeration cheminey...now we see them everyday passing here flying back home at night...

[@dannisan77]

Parrots are very smart birds so it's great to see a species adapt to a completely different environment with a completely different climate. Life always seems to find a way. Nature is amazing.

[@terramater]

They really are! Yeah nature is great 🤩 have you seen our other parrot videos? There are some interesting stories about them ☺

[@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307]

@@terramater 40cm? they dont look that long.

[@Adamz678]

i don't wanna be that "guy", but isn't all invasive species (of course with human involvement) able to survive in environments they're not supposed to be in, otherwise they wouldn't technically be considered invasive? Humans are the most invasive species, but I coin them as such, successful, enough to become such a species, if a cow could, they would rule over you and make you into a burger if they would or could.

[@asterlofts1565]

Unfortunately, almost all of these species are generally invasive because of humans who take them or bring them to places they should not be, although many of them are later killed by predatory birds.

[@asterlofts1565]

By the way, in my house, I HAVE ONE OF THOSE "PARROTS FROM GERMANY". I mean, I HAVE THE SAME SOUTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF PARROT (I live in Paraguay, so it's logical).

[@Blebstinchen]

When I was a child, I went to Wiesbaden every year for an arts and crafts fair. One evening when we were heading home, together with a bunch of other visitors, we all started to hear that funny noise and looked around and we saw a big tree that had a giant flock of parrots sitting there. That moment is one of my favourite memories. A bunch of random strangers absolutely amused at the sight of parrots on an early spring evening in Germany.

[@briantaulbee6452]

The fact that they have adapted to the cold temperatures is amazing but to also adapt to a different diet is even more amazing

[@memorabiliatemporarium2747]

Brazilian here. It's amazing to see that they can survive even in such adverse climates to their original habitat. Also a shame to acknowledge that there aren't as many of them compared to when I was a kid. We used to see them flying around in groups by the morning, some would even sit along my house's walls because my mom always left some fruit for them. When they get used to you, they're so funny. It's been years since I last saw or even heard them 😢 My mom grew up with two macaws and I grew up with one yellow-headed parrot. Will always remember her. This video made me tear up a bit 😅 Thanks!

[@perly0153]

Feel you, here un Dominicaan Republic we had them flying twice a day 😢 Long gone

[@orbiteflow8909]

Too bad you people are destroying the Amazonian rainforest.

[@TheEmolano]

@@orbiteflow8909 it's not us, it's illegal European and American logging companies. We do our part to stop them, but it's convenient for the rest of the world to to both blame us and facilitate the illegal trade.

[@Maverick_42]

Deforrestation?

[@FernandaLobato]

@@Maverick_42No, the main cause is animal trafficking.

[@firewaterbydesign]

*Amazon's and all of their subspecies are my FAVORITE parrots!!! I had one for over 20 years and he was my BFF!! I was his 4th owner that we were able to track. He lived 20 years over what his particular species was known to live, according to my avian vet. He slept on my chest every night and the night that he passed, that is where I held him until he took his last breath. 😢 It has been almost 14 years since he passed and I still miss him to this day. Amazon parrots have a musky scent about them. I actually learned to love the scent of him over the years and miss the distinct smell of him. I love birds in general, but Amazon's are by far my favorite!!!*

[@EliezaBaby]

You should get one as save from parrots from previous pet owners and visit Germany and Netherlands to see adopted parrots 🦜

[@terramater]

Hi Firewater! They really are very cute birds 🦜

[@solar0wind]

Parrots should not be kept solitary. Period. They're social species that need conspecifics to thrive. Don't believe me? Here are three studies/reviews you can look up: -Isosexual pair housing improves the welfare of young Amazon parrots -Social isolation shortens telomeres in African Grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus erithacus) -The welfare and suitability of parrots as companion animals: a review Plus the fact that in Germany, keeping parrots solitary was banned more than 20 years ago due to animal welfare concerns after a number of experts were asked to give their professional opinions. If you were the 4th owner, then maybe the parrot wasn't correctly socialised and thus couldn't have lived together with another parrot. However, that doesn't make it better. It just means they were set up for failure by the breeder. In Germany it is required for breeders to socialise their birds, so they don't struggle with fulfilling an essential need. And no, human contact isn't a substitute for same-species contact. It's mind-boggling to me to see the difference between websites in German language and in English language on that topic. The English websites say "Oh, if two parrots are too much of a hassle for you, just get one." The German websites say "If you don't want more than one parrot, you don't get to have any because it's animal abuse. Either two, or none." At least it was like this when I last looked it up. So in your case, probably you did the best you could do, considering that the parrot likely wasn't socialised, and close human contact is better than no contact. However, if you consider getting another parrot, please first consider the review I mentioned, and if you still want to get parrots then, make sure to get two socialised ones that get along.

[@mickden3155]

They do have a scented smell i have 11 Amazons i have 3 as inside pets i bred and hand raised them they are noisy as. But they are the best i have 2 Blue fronts and a little White front they are so entertaining

[@firewaterbydesign]

@@mickden3155 *I too use to breed all size parrots, until I realized what a disservice I was doing to these AMAZING intelligent creatures. I had over 150 parrots in my breeding aviary. I ended up doing so much rescue work of abused and neglected parrots that I realized how wrong I was to be adding to the problem. My Amazon was a white front that was wild caught before it became illegal. Most only live to be around 35 years old. He was over 35 when I got him. His previous owner had him for 20 years and I had him for over 20 years and he had 2 owner before that. We accounted for 55-60 years of his life. My avian vet said that he was the oldest white front that she had ever heard of!! He was a die hard seed eater too, but he also received fresh fruits and vegetables, along with various other human foods and the last 10 years of his life received apple juice daily to help him keep his blood sugar up. He also received a great deal of antioxidant foods like blueberries, walnuts, etc.... I am pretty sure that the combination of the apple 🍏 juice and antioxidant foods is what kept him alive so long. I still miss my precious little chicky-boy aka José.*

[@hunterhq295]

Kea are parrots adapted for cold yet these tropical parrots managed to survive in Germany wow

[@user-yk9rd8bb7m]

There’s a similar story in Tokyo too where Ring Necked Parakeets have taken over the skylines. They’re actually competing with crows for the apex urban bird niche, and the noise and feces they generate are a big issue here.

[@yorkshirecoastadventures1657]

Parakeets can be found in London too.

[@kirbyculp3449]

And Austin, Texas.

[@elcortez5434]

Parakeets have taken over london. Theyre breeding too fast

[@zweispurmopped]

I live near Cologne, I see flocks of them buzzing about doing their parakeety businesses. They are just beautiful and it never stops to stun me how these bird managed to hold themselves here. Apparently the first ones escaped from an Amsterdam zoo some 100 years ago. In the meantime there have been _pretty_ harsh winters here. In 2010, the first snow in the region here fell on Nov. 1st and it took till mid March 2011 for temperatures to go above 0°C again at all. In early 2013, we had some -20°C for almost three weeks. There were still much harder winters like in the Sixties. They survived all of that.

[@MK-ev5rz]

last year in december -28 C in Düsseldorf. These parrots found a place to keep warm I guess

[@sinderi218]

The ones in Amsterdam are not Amazon parrots, but rose-ringed parakeets. There's about 10.000 of them flying around the randstad from the last counting. I'm hoping they don't spread much outside of that zone to not compete with native birds for nesting sites.

[@ConradNeill]

Those birds are crazy, they swoop past your head with only a few centimeters of clearance. They fly so close, you can feel your hair being ruffled. Beautiful birds, though, and amazing to watch as they make their way through the city at low altitudes. They're like little feathered fighter jets.

[@apocalypse487]

My budgies do this. He taps my knee or shoulder during flight.

[@terramater]

Hi Conrad! That is such a cute story - Thanks for sharing 🦜✈️

[@dinomar7818]

I think they do this on purpose.

[@BesoffenerIslamist]

My male cockatiel also sometimes goes full kamikaze. A few days ago he misjudged his dive by a few centimeters and bashed right into my head lol

[@cottoncandykawaii2673]

@@dinomar7818 yes it's a sort of game they play amongst eachother to show off how close they will get to the humans like double-dare

[@reialex]

Köln is amazing , they estimate 50K of ringneck’s in the principal avenue is incredible to see them at sunset time!!

[@manzanasrojas6984]

Ye, supposedly the biggest colony of them outside the Amazon, and also genetically more diverse than the one in the Amazon

[@PragerFenster]

Yeah, you can see virtual huge nousy clouds of them circling over the river Rhine in the evenings! Love them 😍🦜🦜🦜

[@SP-ki5gn]

@@manzanasrojas6984 None in the Amazon...

[@tompauwels7753]

We have them in Brussels and other places in Belgium to

[@reialex]

The story is that some escaped a some decades ago from the zoo and now they’re established in Köln and 2 years ago there were temperatures of -15 Celsius during the winter and they could handle it

[@Allegory_of_Wolves]

Here in Germany, there's another parrot colony in Cologne (Köln). They love especially the large, old Melaten cemetery as a home and can be seen in the trees there.

[@Doc_Rainbow]

same in Düsseldorf, there allways fly arround in big flocks of like 30 Birds, very epic, there allways fly by the Kö

[@10Tabris01]

There's one in Bonn too, frequenting the parks around the Rhine

[@schizoposter1499]

I'm from Germany and back in highschool there was a parrot that was living in the little forest next to the school which had escaped its owners. It's so surreal to see such a colorful tropical bird casually chilling in the trees considering how grey and lifeless the city I'm from feels a lot of times.

[@priceprice_baby]

As an Australian I just thought parrots were a pretty normal category of bird found everywhere, it was only recently I discovered they were rare in cold areas. New Zealand's Keas are amazing c9ld weather parrots though

[@Aethuviel]

And Patagonian parakeets/conures are found in a temperate-ish climate. Parrots really have their stronghold in the Amazon-to-Mexico jungle, and in the Southeast Asian and Oceanic islands, with some species in Africa.

[@rogerwilco2]

I miss hummingbirds even more than parrots.

[@oichilli7309]

As a German who went to australia I never thought I'd see so many parrots that the wouldn't be special any more

[@mehere8038]

@@oichilli7309 yeh, but they're still kinda special, even if our parrots are like other country's pigeons & rats :) I still love living in a place where so many native animals choose to live alongside me in the middle of a city of 5 million people :) & in reality, they only live in cities in Australia because so many feel the same way & feed them

[@indigenousspinster_6665]

@@Aethuvielthey’re native range is as far north as the North American SouthWest

[@Anonymous-rz7cn]

There are also parrots in Bonn (Bad Godesberg). I've seen them there many times. Great Video. Thank you.

[@Anonymous-rz7cn]

Halsbandsittiche (Rose-ringed Parakeet) are in Bonn, Germany

[@elimik31]

Greetings from Bonn, I was also happy to find them when I moved here. I addition to Rose-Ringed parakeet we also have some larger Alexandrian Parakeet (Alexandersittiche), e.g. near Hofgarten. Other Rhineland cities such as Köln have them too. The locally milder climate compared to other cities might play a role. I can here them whil writing this.

[@Anonymous-rz7cn]

@@elimik31 Greetings from northern Germany. I miss the little birds, unfortunately they don't exist up here in the north, but I have kingfishers here. I used to live in Siegburg around 2007/2008 and was often in Bad Godesberg and I always saw the parrots there, I also saw them from the trams (Line 66) in other parts of Bonn. They're also in Hofgarten, very cool, I didn't know that. And you heard the parrots while writing the answer, that's lovely ❤🦜

[@terramater]

Hi ! That sounds amazing! We´re very happy to hear that you liked it ☺️

[@helivesforever7312]

I ve seen them in summer in one of the parks in Frankfurt am Main too😊, could not believe my eyes. There were quite many of them

[@bootyhunter915]

Stuttgart is not the only city in germany with parrots. In Wiesbaden are also over 2000 Ring-necked Parakeet and another 540 Great Alexander Parakeets.

[@darthplagueis13]

I visited the gardening expo in Mannheim with my family yesterday and we saw a few Rose-ringed parakeets flying around. The amazons certainly aren't the only parrots that can thrive in urban environments.

[@Quast]

I've seen a video that some are spending the night in Heidelberg xD

[@terramater]

Oh that is so cool! 🤩🦜

[@Gandalf-The-Green]

Yup, these Indian Ringnecks are almost everywhere around the Mannheim/Heidelberg area. My parents live in the area and when I visit and sit on the balcony on a summer evening, there will often be a flock of about 20 flying overhead, chattering.

[@Xianne027]

​@@QuastHeidelberg is full of them.

[@der_sandler]

Very cool video! Can you do one on the wild Rhea (German: Nandu) population in North Germany as well? It would make for an interesting topic, for sure

[@terramater]

Hi Sandler! Thank you so much! ☺️ We will keep it in mind - thank you for your suggestion!

[@kilsestoffel3690]

In Vreden, NRW, is also a colony of flamingos

[@Engifarting456]

who tf is making invasive species in germany

[@Tina_jpg]

​@@kilsestoffel3690Vreden ist in NRW 😅

[@kilsestoffel3690]

@@Tina_jpg stimmt natürlich...

[@timestorm5687]

Fun fact: these parrots aren’t the only (tropical?) American bird that made its way to Germany, Nandus (a large flightless South American bird, also known as rhea(the German name comes from the sound it makes)) also exist as a wild population in Mecklenburg Vorpommern. One of he northernmost Bundesländer/states.

[@terramater]

That's interesting! Thanks for the insights!

[@catymoonlightlove241]

@@terramater usa lobstersand crayfish ( solutuion we now eat them xd) nadus make good omletes xd racoons also become some kind of part of certainplaces but racoon sound so i dont know we call them washbears

[@prissilou]

Amazing! I used to live just outside Stuttgart as a young teenager. That was a long time ago, back in 1967-1970. So charmed to see the parrots thriving. Life finds a way!

[@raraavis7782]

I was so amazed, when I moves from Berlin to Cologne and saw the local Parakeet flocks for the first time. They're very pretty and 'talkative'.

[@azeriff]

Yeah, we have a similar story in Baku. There’s an urban legend that someone wanted to transport parrots but didn’t clear customs health checks and eventually set them free. The Rose-ringed parakeets settled right in the heart of the city, near the Governor’s Park. They’re so dominant that they’ve chased away all other competing birds. They fiercely defend their territory. Surprisingly, they seem comfortable even with the winds and the not-so-cold but sometimes harsh winter. Their population has only grown. It’s a joy to watch in January when a persimmon tree in the old town is covered with these birds. They flock in large numbers and feast on the fruits. The contrast of green on orange is breathtaking.

[@ddandori]

Baku shall be very beautiful

[@marcelogouveia9614]

I'm from Brazil, and it's loving to be criticized by Europe, yet you're the ones taking our resources. 😂😂😂

[@FSAEntertainment]

Beautiful birds

[@buzznotabee]

I confess I felt a little sorry when I saw them alone in the snow🥺, these are the cutest Christmas bubbles

[@terramater]

They're very cute!

[@corringhamdepot4434]

There are flocks of Ring-necked parakeets in southern England, They gather in the tall trees of my local cemetery. They are believed to have originated from captive birds escaping in the 1970s.

[@onur6145]

Similar thing here in Istanbul. You can see parrots in and around the Gülhane Park. They have been there for many years.

[@terramater]

Hi Onur! That sounds really cool! ☺️

[@QUINTUSMAXIMUS]

And at least Istanbul is warmer than Germany. :)

[@terramater]

Hi Onur! That is so cool! 🦜

[@onur6145]

@@QUINTUSMAXIMUS Winters are pretty cold though 😌

[@eclairis]

I hope these beautiful birds keep on thriving for many generations in this new environment. Maybe, after a few thousand years, they'll have evolved into something else entirely!

[@luca.platti]

Pavia in Northern Italy too has been steadily colonised by plenty of rewilded parrots, specifically ringneck parakeets, who could survive the rigid winter climate due to the network of ancient brick buildings (towers, churches, the castle, the university compound and its cloisters) which provide them with a quite warmer shelter than the surroundig countryside during the coldest months of the year.

[@gustavovillegas5909]

Meraviglioso!

[@Requiemes]

Pretty sure most cities in Italy now are full of them. Even in Sardinia, you can find flocks of parrots everywhere in Cagliari.

[@Xanvast]

They appeared in the Paris suburbs also a few years ago.

[@varoonnone7159]

If only they could eat the rats

[@MrFredericandre]

Rumor I heard is that they escaped from Orly airport. They were imported there as pets. Not sure if true.

[@Xanvast]

@@MrFredericandre I was on holidays next to Barcelona in 2020 and i prefer believing they followed me home 😁

[@fishbones5037]

we have parakeets living in London now they was released as pets and they seem to do quiet well here

[@zanezaminsky2417]

When we visited Amsterdam last year I was surprised to see plenty of wild parrots living there. They are amazing flyers. Very fast.

[@AVDB95]

Likely rignecks. Rignecks in europe are verry populare and a lott off people breed them in outside aviaries so they are already used to the colder climate. A lot off european cities have big populations off rignecks. Mostly a combination off escaped and released pets. Or in the case off Brussel an amusment park released 60 birds to roam their grounds as living decoration, off course being able to fly meant they didn't stick to the park for long.

[@blobbertmcblob4888]

I actually think stuff like this is pretty cool. It's always nice to see species adapting to very different environments. Makes me wish we had parrots here on the east coast US.

[@stride3051]

I’m not sure if you already know but there actually use to be a native species of parrot in the United States called the Carolina Parakeet. I would suggest taking a look if you don’t already know!

[@hieonkd9572]

most of the time it isn't really good for the native birds

[@nilanjanachatterjee9023]

Excellent video 😊. Beautiful parrots 🦜

[@beatrixwillius]

There are also parrots in Wiesbaden. I've even seen them in Mainz which is next to Wiesbaden. I remember reading in the newspaper that they often have crippled feet because of the cold.

[@orangeBud117]

I listen to them every day here in Stuttgart, I live right in Stuttgart near the park. They make a loud croaking for a quarter of an hour each time they settle down in their hundreds on their sleeping trees in the evening. For someone who doesn't know it, it must seem very strange when suddenly in Germany there are hundreds of loud green parrots and in the evening they suddenly make a loud, happy noise. As a Stuttgarter, you've gotten used to it over the last few decades, and people like their cheeky little parrots.

[@clairesala1012]

I’m located in LA county and these parrots are everywhere. I will be under the 405 and I swear they’re so clever, I see them going into the structure of the 405 to create their nests. It wasn’t until that moment where their adaptability was wow-ing to me. I hear them in the mornings as well in the trees almost everywhere I go. I just think its amazing how the same species of parrots are in Germany

[@ericvulgate]

New York city has a sizable parakeet population.

[@CordeliaWagner]

And more rats than humans.

[@varoonnone7159]

​@@CordeliaWagner That's Paris

[@terramater]

Hi eric! Yeah it´s so cool that so many cities have free flying parrots living there 🦜

[@BloodwyrmWildheart]

@@varoonnone7159 They live in tents and defecate all over the streets.

[@varoonnone7159]

@@BloodwyrmWildheart Not all French people are like. Some have proper houses and toilets

[@scrubjay93]

Are they displacing other cavity-nesting birds native to Germany? That is a big problem with non-native cavity-nesting birds in the USA. Some birds, like woodpeckers, can make their own holes, but it still requires trees with decay, so there is not an unlimited supply of suitable trees. Many other birds and animals use holes made by other species because they can't make their own. The non-native birds spread even into wilderness areas in western states. Cavity-nesting birds in general have suffered from the transformation of old-growth forests into younger forests managed for timber production. These forests have far fewer suitable nesting trees.

[@d.b.2215]

Not a lot of cavity nesting birds in German cities. They're mostly in the countryside

[@mehere8038]

I think this is a problem everywhere. I know in cities in Australia, there's fights over hollows by lorikeets, cockatoos, kookaburras, possums & a wide range of owls. Other birds that need hollows aren't dominate enough to compete with the above & are driven out of the area. Lorikeets in particular have caused problems where they've become invasive with taking hollows needed by others. There's a tree hollow near me, near ground level, it's in use all spring & summer. Male lorikeet spends his days sitting on a branch above it & alerting his mate inside to any movement & as soon as she hears him, she flies out of it & then returns when it's clear. As soon as their baby/s can fly, they leave the nest & force the baby to endure the weather in the open, due ot the danger that hollow presents, but they have no choice but to use it if they want to breed. People here build nest boxes for birds & possums & attach them to trees too young to have hollows, but it's never enough. There's even a guy that's come up with a system of drilling hollows into trees, along with attaching an outer structure now, which is more efficient & longer term than the artificial nest boxes, he can do dozens of trees every day with that system, but there's still never enough. Even the hollow I'm talking about near the ground is actually in a tree that was cut down, due to being dangerous but council required the bottom part of the tree be left, due to the existence of the hollow in it & how precious they are

[@JVSfit23]

We already lost the iconic woodpecker in United States. We don’t need non native birds snuffing out the last 2 woodpecker species left.

[@anshumananandgond6332]

I really hope these little fellas get their aid from the locals. It's really hard to gather food during the winters for all sorts of birds and evn harder to survive as a new one is born during the winter season.

[@hermannschaefer4777]

There is and was a stable population of Rose-ringed parakeet around Heidelberg for decades. They escaped from some zoos in Europe and settled were they could live (in the winter). Along the Rhine river the population is estimated around 20.000 now.

[@EdoTyran]

I see them out of my window daily as well in Amsterdam. Quite noisy birds.

[@CordeliaWagner]

Not as loud as the neighbours having babies and small children. Parrots don't scream all night...

[@varoonnone7159]

​@@CordeliaWagner Don't pretend it's the same thing. It's an invasive specie

[@terramater]

Hi EdoTyran! How cool to have them so close by! But isn´t their cuteness a nice trade off?

[@EdoTyran]

@@terramater they are very cute, but also hard to find

[@kamion53]

@@CordeliaWagner No they start at sunrise, taking an hour to tell each other what they were doing at night and take off as a noisy flock to get breakfast somewhere.

[@Robin3615]

We have Monk Parakeets living in Chicago. They build nests around electric transformers for warmth in the winter and eat well from backyard feeders.

[@mehere8038]

that's interesting re the backyard feeders, I was just commenting on the comment about the parrots in LA being timid, wondering if that related to how humans behave towards them. How tame are the monk parakeets there? Is in like lorikeets & sulfur crested cockatoos in Australia, that will happily approach people for food?

[@Robin3615]

@@mehere8038 No they do not approach humans for food that I've heard of. They will sit in very low branches near humans but not directly interact. People love seeing them and choose special food to attract them to their backyards.

[@mehere8038]

@@Robin3615 That's interesting & weird. I wonder why they don't interact more than that. I wonder if it relates to bird personalities or if it relates to inappropriate behaviours from some humans in the area. Lorikeets & cockatoos in particular climb all over people to get food & try to break into houses to come inside to look for food if their human is late in feeding. Others do it too though, others that will actually go into houses if a door is left open include kookaburras, magpies, currawongs, butcher birds, ravens, galahs & a range of other wildlife like lizards, possums etc. King parrots & rosella parrots are less likely to enter or climb onto people, but in some cases they will when used to the humans in question, especially with the king parrots, so it's almost all the common species here doing it, which makes me think human behaviours rather than natural timidness in those birds that aren't doing it there. I've heard that in Indonesia the same parrot species that do approach humans in Australia refuse to, but Indonesia has major issues with illegal bird trade, so the birds are no doubt smart to be cautious there. I wonder if some people are trying to catch the Monk parrots there as pets (or to sell as pets) & therefore making all of them nervous & cautious around humans

[@Robin3615]

That's very interesting. I'm not 100% sure what humans may be doing here to inhibit the interaction. I occasionally see someone posting a picture that they have found someone's parrot in a tree. Not everyone is aware of their presence in Chicago. It is very likely that humans have tried to catch them with good intentions of getting them to their owner. I go on walks with my Senegal and A LOT of people want to interact with her so I don't think they are doing anything on purpose to discourage it. In the tourist eating areas in Chicago like Lincoln Park Zoo, the sparrows readily take food from your hand which I find very cool. @@mehere8038

[@aviendha1154]

Parrots can live pretty comfortably in cold climates. Feathers are amazing. Kea aren’t just cars.

[@pami333]

There are other parrot species in Germany, but most come from Asia (the Himalayan region especially (but not only), where climate is not that much different which makes it even easier to survive in Germany). Psittacula eupatria and Psittacula krameri are the two most common ones.

[@Whydoiexisthere-]

We used to have a ginormous, family tree in our backyard. It was big enough to reach our second story window, and show us inside its leaves. I would commonly see green-ish parrots hanging around inside, along with some other more common suburban birds. Not really sure what species, but from what I remember they could’ve been these lil guys!

[@terramater]

That sounds amazing 🦜

[@directimpact4990]

Used to

[@lrt14174]

Yeah they live in my street. Every morning they wake me up chatting and quaking and in the evening they exchange their news to each other loudly, before they go to sleep in the trees 😄

[@markphillips7538]

Chicago also has several colonies of wild parrots (monk parakeets). They make nests to survive the winters.

[@leoatreides1]

further north in Cologne there is an other parrot colony which spread now down the Rhine to Bonn and also up the smaller river Sieg to the villages in the surrounding. A different parrot but also green and quite funny to see in winter times for sure :). The whole rhine area around Bonn and Cologne is a bit warmer than the sourrounding so it is helping them.

[@animalsoundsreal]

It really is. The climate on our planet Earth is changing. In Germany, it also becomes comfortable for parrots... Great job👍👍👍, my friend🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝!

[@terramater]

Thanks for watching our video!

[@thomasmleahy6218]

Those are Double Yellow headed parrots! One of my favorites! Can't believe they adapted to life there! Wow!

[@Steppenkater]

When I moved to the center of Stuttgart I was thinking there must be a kindergarten nearby because of all the noise of playing children. It took me weeks to realize that this were parrots.

[@scottruigrok5986]

Love seeing similar birds in Brussels and Amsterdam. Do they out compete and push out other birds in cities?

[@terramater]

Nice to hear! there is always some sort of competition when a new species enters a territory - it just depends to what extend but that can have many factors

[@zivangojkovic824]

Malaga in Spain is full of similar parrots called cotora argentina. They live in palm trees and are very loud. It the early morning they go to feed together with crows and pigeons in the open fields. People are annoyed by their noise, but I adore them. So full of life.

[@terramater]

They truly are cheery little creatures

[@PossibleBat]

People feared they would displace native bird species, specially smaller ones. In Barcelona there’s plenty of pidgeons, cotorras argentinas and our own native reeeeeeally small pardals (similar to sparrows). What ended up happening is pidgeons cohabitate with any species, and pardals are quicker, faster and smarter, so while the cotorras mingle in groups, the little sparrows take that opportunity to steal their food 😂 it’s so funny to see a whole flock of this green parrots making noise and in groups and then a flash happens and their food is gone 😂

[@SuperThatguylol]

Yep do not forget the U.k They have bright green parrots!! I remember being in London in the heart of the city and being astonished to see these bright green birds all in the trees the day before Christmas.

[@TheFlamingoMen]

There is a couple hundred of them living in a tree next to my apartment in Mannheim every winter. They gather there at evening and suddenly turn all quiet when the sund goes down. I also observed some more colonies in other trees around the city. I counted over 90 in the tree next to my flat one day so i guess there are at least 500 living here.

[@terramater]

Wow that is amazing 🦜

[@nothingnessofeverything]

We have many flocks of parrots here in Southern California. I have seen them in Orange County all the way to Los Angeles. Mostly green conures, they are timid and stay away from humans but ironically they were once pets. They are def not native to here, but it’s an ideal habitat for them as it is mostly warm with mild winters and tons of tropical plants that people have planted such as palms

[@mehere8038]

I wonder why they're timid. In Australia, it's hard to tell if the cockies that say "hello" do so because of once being pets, or if it's because they've learnt to say it while wild to get more food & interactions from humans they choose to visit & play with. I honestly don't know if the difference would be a parrot personality thing, or a human personality thing, both Aussie parrots & Aussie humans tend to be very outgoing & friendly. What would happen if one or more of those conures was to turn up at someone's home & sit on their balcony railing & scream to the humans inside, demanding food? In Australia, the human would come out & see the bird & return with food for it, so birds have learnt to do that as an easy food source. I know with animals like possums & racoons in the US though, that's not the norm, so I wonder if that also applies to birds & if they try to interact with humans, what their experiences with the humans are

[@nothingnessofeverything]

@@mehere8038 that is a good point. I can only speak for myself, they never get close enough to even try to interact. I have a bird feeder where many birds come crows and city birds as well as pigeon but never parrots. Also they stay in huge swarms of over 100 birds, I don’t think anyone would have enough food to feed them all they have to stick to palms or hanging out at the cemetery or in the wild reserves

[@mehere8038]

​@@nothingnessofeverything That's really interesting that the other birds will come to your feeder, but not the parrots. In Australia, if one species comes in, the rest will see & view that as a sign it's safe & join them, for example today I had cockatoos at my place, so a Currawong & noisy miner decided to come in & see if there was an easy feed available for them too. Generally it tends to be the reverse to that though, the plain coloured but really assertive noisy miners tend to be the first & the currawongs, that are a more solo bird will also tend to be one of the first & then the flock birds like cockatoos & lorikeets will follow. That's really curious that those parrot flocks don't even attempt to come in. Lorikeets sleep in swarms of tens of thousands (well "sleep" is probably not the right word, in breeding season, in shopping districts they mass mob the trees & because of the number, the volume is so loud you cannot have a conversation within 100 metres or so of their line of trees, even screaming, a human simply cannot be heard over their volume & they do that till at least midnight every night). During the day, they split up into smaller flocks, some will go off in pairs, but it's also totally common for them to come in to an individual backyard in their hundreds if people feed them. "cockatoo madness" is a channel on here that feeds them, go look at his videos to see how many will turn up together, well over 100. Currumbin wildlife sanctuary in Qld also started out the same way, a family feeding the parrots & more & more came & they now have over 1000 wild lorikeets come in for feeding twice a day & they have built a major tourist attraction out of it. Lots of tourist resorts do the same thing, feed on a routine everyday so the birds will consistently come in to add tourist value to their resort. No-one in Australia is feeding the parrots ALL their needed food, but the human food tends to be either nicer or easier than the birds getting it themselves, so they come in for a snack/junk food, so for the cockies, it's seeds or "crackers" with sugar in them & for lorikeets, it's nectar mix in bowls, rather than them having to work to extract the nectar from flowers in the same way bees do, tiny bit at a time. I'm guessing palms would be nice high fat food sources, so highly attractive to them & hard for humans to compete with, but there's still going to be limited quantities of food in the palms, while humans can provide a more consistent food source year round, so it's still kinda weird that as the palms food is all eaten, that some of them don't consider checking out bird feeders as an extra source of food & when a few find it, they then tend to call in the entire flock to join them - which is what they would have done with palms & the cemetery & other sources as the way that they found those sources to start with I find that really curious, I have no idea why that difference would occur & you wouldn't be getting them at your bird feeder with the other species. I wonder what would happen if you played recordings of them from your home, cause if they think there's birds of their own species there, that tends to be the strongest message to them there's a safe food source available. Could be interesting to try. Only reason I can think of that could explain their behaviour is if maybe humans try to catch them anytime they come to human sources for food? I know in Indonesia the parrots are not tame, even when the same species as the tame ones in Australia. Indonesia has very poor poaching controls, so the birds that get close to humans are frequently caught. While I'm sure there's not major poaching there, I wonder if people do try to catch them to become their pets, or even larger scale to sell to pet stores (although anyone doing it large scale would be much more likely to be finding their nests & stealing their eggs or babies, but I guess doing that might also create a generalised fear of humans in the entire flock/species in the area. If that is the reason, then please don't try to overly encourage them to trust you with calling them with recordings or whatever, but I just find what you're saying all round weird, I'm not doubting you at all, I'm just really, really curious how you can have a range of species comfortable coming to your home/bird feeder, but one species, especially one with former pets within it, refusing to. It's really sad too, cause I'm sure people like you, that are already getting enjoyment from other species, would get huge enjoyment from the parrots visiting. I know the joy I get from it. Actually one other possible thought on a reason I have, the crows probably target their babies as food & I'm not sure on the sizes, maybe even for the adults it's not safe for them to go to the same food source as the crows use? That happens here with currawongs, magpies, butcherbirds, kookaburras etc targetting the babies of the noisy miners, lorikeets etc as food, but they still feed together, but it is only the gregarious species we get, there's basically no tiny songbirds in urban areas, other than where people have spent lots of time planting thickly spiky shrubs that provide extensive cover for those birds to escape the predator birds. Those little ones won't go to open space feeders to eat, no matter how tempting the food is, due to the risk from the meat eating birds, maybe that's the issue there? I don't know, but it's sad, wish I had ideas to help you bring in those parrots, cause it would be wonderful for you to be able to enjoy them at your bird feeder too

[@PhD777]

Excellent informative video! Though heartbreaking to see those precious creatures in such cold. Hopefully people or the city help with nesting materials and food.

[@ELL289]

Beautifully done, the presentation was so enjoyable. Thank you.

[@sonnetquinn5318]

I visited Barcelona for the first time this year and was super surprised at the vast number of parrots throughout the city. Fascinating!

[@Peafowlfeather]

Very nice video with delicate presentation 😊!!! Keep it up we would like to see more like these!!!

[@infini.tesimo]

I'm actually in deep shock right now. That now makes sense what I saw in Arizona growing up and seeing a random African Grey just chilling in the park trees without an owner. It was actually wild and it adapted. I'm excited for this because parrots are far more beautiful birds to look at than doves and pigeons.

[@terramater]

Yeah they indeed look a bit out of place when you see them flying about in the cities and you don´t know about them ☺🦜

[@sdqsdq6274]

lol , his owner probably looking for him

[@whereissuz]

This gives me a lot of hope. ❤

[@mrdasilver]

This is amazing! I would've never guessed a bird from a tropical climate would survive and thrive in a place like Germany! Mother Nature never ceases to impress me!

[@elieli3602]

В Нидерландах и Бельгии так же прижилось огромное количество попугаев, очень похожи , но другая расцветка. У них нех врагов в природе и их уже стаи. Они вредят фермерам, могут переносить мороз до -20! Скоро их будет больше, чем местных птиц.

[@Kiyoone]

WOW. They are amazing!

[@terramater]

Hi Kiyoone! They really are right?! 🦜

[@erikm8372]

The desert of the southwest US gets freezing cold during the winters, especially at night. I don’t know how lovebirds adapted, considering equatorial and sub Saharan Africa’s temperatures. We also have a native parrot species, the endangered thick-billed parrots, of Arizona, New Mexico & northern Mexico (Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila states). They live in pine and oak forests which is pretty unusual for parrots. So they definitely have to deal with cold winters and even snow. In New Zealand, the kea parrot specifically lives in montane regions in snow.

[@huldu]

Non predators usually do pretty good in cities as long they stay out of sight. Many animals evolve very odd behaviours they do not have in the wild, like for example being active at night, rummaging in trash etc. Cities tend to be quite lit and plenty of food and the most important thing - very few predators. I'd expect animals would be pretty clever when it comes to finding warm spots since there are plenty of those as well.

[@RustyDust101]

As far as I know the population of Wellensittich in Wiesbaden came from one couple that escaped their owners late in the 1960's. They have claimed the Schlossgarten as their territory. It's amazing to see these colorful flashes zoom in-between the huge Platanen trees in the Schlossgarten in Biebrich.

[@guydw1251]

Fascinating. Thanks for posting.

[@terramater]

Glad to hear you like it

[@e.miller8943]

There were monk parrots in Dallas, TX where I lived and also Austin. Their main problem was that their nests were on power and communication poles and had to be removed.

[@bkm2797]

Every morning of everyday I hear the Mitred Conures aka (Cherryheads), fly by my building heading to The Presidio and back at the end of the day to McArthur Park and other small niches, I live in San Francisco and love our parrots, hope your Yellowheaded Amazons are loved as well. Thank you for sharing.

[@anicatt]

Let alone how cute and harmonious they are to hear and look How amazing nature can be! Hurray for this German city to respect them

[@denispoli7173]

These are very intelligent animals. I could never imagine they could thrive in Germany.

[@terramater]

It's pretty surprising!

[@LichtAnker.]

If humans can adapt to many climates, why shouldn't birds?! Apparently they are smart enough to find a warm place to sleep in winter. 🙂 Btw I live in Germany too, its not soo bad. 😁

[@nyahanan]

All this parrots are very intelligents birds, with adaptation to human cities they can survive. In Germany some bird species do not migrate in autumn anymore, because the Germans feed the wild birds in winter! In groceries they offer a lot of bird food for winter!

[@honeybees5003]

But those amazone parrots in Stuttgart prefer to forage for food in the trees even on cold winter days.

[@monicayoungblood8557]

That is SO WONDERFUL❤️

[@lindawilson795]

I love these beautiful birds .❤

[@greencodra]

This reminds me a lot about the ringneck parakeet in Belgium and the Netherlands. A species of Parrot that is quite aggresive to the native species. They have spread threw large parts of Europe and are thriving. Its amazing how nature can adept and creatures like this find a place in the local ecosystem.

[@violet_green4335]

They are in Poland too:)

[@KChow-nb1pz]

Same story in singapore, ringnecks are doing amazingly here, though they're definitely impacting local long-tailed parakeets so they're not great

[@definitelynotatroll246]

Yeah we have them in the uk mainly in London but they’re spreading out

[@guineapigshavetakenovermyl6602]

such lovely parrots ❤

[@kathysalkeldbonilla6541]

Amazing, thanks for sharing!

[@BVargas78]

They are lovely!

[@hmtmth8481]

Welcome the "New Wild" !

[@Chris1982416]

We have parrots in Chicago. I mean a lot of them too

[@justaemptymall]

I lost it when the subtitles said "Blind and fatherless" 😂

[@DamnAwesome]

This was such a good video!

[@terramater]

Thank you for watching our videos! Any topic you would like to see next?

[@davidrubioroldan]

El último sitio donde uno espera ver un loro. Increíble la adaptabilidad,los alemanes son muy respetuosos con los animales así que estarán bien cuidados

[@Scmonk]

There are also other species of parots in germany. Where i live, there is a population of alexandrine parrots, who are named after alexander the great, who brought them from south and southeast asia to various european places.

[@ilyatravels]

This is Amazing!

[@sylvia7958]

I love to watch them play in the top of the birch in front of my window while I sip my morning coffee. When it's snowy their colours seems even brighter 💚

[@terramater]

Hi Sylvia! They're so gorgeous!