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Red-Crowned Parrots in Texas

Bird-enthusiasts in the Rio Grande Valley are turning their attention to a bird with a strong personality about which researchers know very little: the Red-Crowned Parrot. Threatened by habitat loss and the pet trade, the Red-Crowned Parrot has moved to the cities of south Texas, while researchers and volunteers are just now learning the basics about this quirky bird.

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  • @pixie_x0399
    @pixie_x03997 ай бұрын

    I have rescued a red crowned parrot from a shelter last year. He is an amazing bird and companion. He is 17 years young. Thank you for this video.

  • @mechadebzilla
    @mechadebzilla5 жыл бұрын

    Always happy to see the parrots and parakeets flying around Brownsville. I hope to see them protected from exploitation.

  • @quinnpoirier9524
    @quinnpoirier95247 ай бұрын

    This may be far from my area but IM so happy to see parrots back in the usa! there were some species that went extinct but im so happy they are making a comeback. SUch beautiful and intelligent creatures

  • @TXGrackle
    @TXGrackle6 жыл бұрын

    There is a huge population of these parrots in the RGV, especially at dusk in Harlingen.

  • @Chinunit22
    @Chinunit225 жыл бұрын

    I am glad that there are kind people out there that helping out such fine, unique animals!!!

  • @DutyJames
    @DutyJames6 жыл бұрын

    Wow i never thought there where native parrots in texas,so cool

  • @ryansmith2814

    @ryansmith2814

    5 жыл бұрын

    Not native lmao, invasive

  • @donaldlawrance5933

    @donaldlawrance5933

    4 жыл бұрын

    It is native just like jaguar . Northern part of range. Animals don't adhere to human-made state boundary lmfao!

  • @rht785

    @rht785

    4 жыл бұрын

    they are natives of mexico .

  • @coyotemoonc3258

    @coyotemoonc3258

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ryansmith2814 The Carolina Parakeet used to range in Texas.

  • @InfinityLRDL

    @InfinityLRDL

    2 жыл бұрын

    There are a ton in SoCal, I saw a lot in Pasadena and Orange County

  • @karlaaaaledp5953
    @karlaaaaledp59536 жыл бұрын

    The parrots leave near my house in a palm tree, in Matamoros.

  • @victoriad4424
    @victoriad44245 жыл бұрын

    Oh wow, we saw a huge flock a good couple of months ago in Houston hanging out on a few trees and telephone poles. I thought I was tripping but this was it. How incredibly magnificent.

  • @dwaynekight7381
    @dwaynekight73812 жыл бұрын

    Brownsville Texas has named the red crown as their "official bird"

  • @Bigtexatx11
    @Bigtexatx116 жыл бұрын

    I haven't had the chance to see many of the Red Crowned down here, (I live in the McAllen area) but man I sure do see a lot of Green Parakeets. In the wintertime they congregate around the city in mass numbers. In December/January I regularly see flocks of 200 to 300 or more in the evening roosting around busy shopping centers and intersections. Its a beautiful sighting, but also incredibly noisy.

  • @MsTravis206
    @MsTravis2063 жыл бұрын

    I saw two last year here in Harlingen Texas. They were in my backyard screaming lol. It was so great to see. I’ve lived here for 4 years.

  • @rmontemayor05
    @rmontemayor057 ай бұрын

    They are so many roosting at my home. There are at least 50 here. They are wild in the morning!

  • @HoldenWorldTravel
    @HoldenWorldTravel2 жыл бұрын

    I took a picture of 2 parrots in the wild in Dallas TX. That's what brought me to this video.

  • @johndang887
    @johndang8872 ай бұрын

    they're all over pasadena ca. they're so cute and I love hearing them.

  • @jacobrodriguez1104
    @jacobrodriguez11043 жыл бұрын

    Makes me proud to be a valley kid!

  • @loveyourparrot_
    @loveyourparrot_6 жыл бұрын

    Very cool! I live in Farmersville, Texas with my own pet parrots. Great video and education for all of us!

  • @alexismartinez8343
    @alexismartinez83434 жыл бұрын

    ❤💖 🦜 Beautiful parrots! It is amazing to see endangered beautiful parrots like the red crowned parrot live in Texas and Florida to be save as endangered species in Mexico. This could helped and repopulated its species. 🦜 💖❤

  • @alexismartinez8343

    @alexismartinez8343

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Joseph Martinez You're welcome, my friend.

  • @abliz8480
    @abliz84805 жыл бұрын

    If you go to HEB on Trenton and 10th st, you will see em on the trees ...

  • @nofuture013
    @nofuture0136 жыл бұрын

    See these parrots all the time I come to Brownsville especially around the park near city hall around 6pm or earlier before they return to they’re nest

  • @mexica8759
    @mexica87596 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful mexican parrot of Anahuac

  • @jasminealwedyan874
    @jasminealwedyan8746 ай бұрын

    My cockateil Noodles is trying to talk to the birds on this vide lol 😆

  • @peterbrown7688
    @peterbrown76886 жыл бұрын

    i used to like looking at the parrots in a city park in monterrey mx

  • @rht785

    @rht785

    4 жыл бұрын

    there are thousands of then in monterrey at dusk they fly to the woods in the mountains .

  • @notyou000
    @notyou0002 жыл бұрын

    I love this bird is not a pet lovely bird it hides in bocachica inside the freeway. In the underlayers of wood access in gaps on stones . Right exactly on top of a engraved stone of them they love it yes tough luck on that it still rims the valley they use to be more hopefully getting cought to be realeased in the wild . . I see this bird every day so beautiful.

  • @Soapartisan875
    @Soapartisan8754 жыл бұрын

    Omg we have a large colony of these gorgeous parrots in Laredo Texas

  • @eduardoelizondo5539
    @eduardoelizondo55395 жыл бұрын

    I just returned from a trip to Austin and was amazed to see wild parrots all around on Airport Blvd. and MLK. I asked about the birds and was advised that there is a bunch in the trees in a park near by.

  • @THEISAAC1593
    @THEISAAC15932 күн бұрын

    They have come to San Diego, CA now I see huge flock from my home every morning and sunset

  • @stonedcrusader8539
    @stonedcrusader85393 ай бұрын

    A family of these live in my palm tree in my front yard.

  • @sandrapowell4166
    @sandrapowell41663 ай бұрын

    The parrots are happy and have a lot to say

  • @DavidRodriguez-hg6kq
    @DavidRodriguez-hg6kq4 жыл бұрын

    Last year I saw some parrots here in Corpus Christi in town. They may have been these one's with the red crown.

  • @robertgaston6479
    @robertgaston6479 Жыл бұрын

    I live in Deer Park Texas and I've seen a flock of parrots in our neighborhood but I've also seeing them and Kemah Texas.

  • @DigiScape903
    @DigiScape903Ай бұрын

    A new flock of these has moved into the Disneyland resort area in California too

  • @lukegorneykphs2668
    @lukegorneykphs26684 жыл бұрын

    Saw 8 to 10 of these flying over I-45 near League City. About 20 ft off the ground.

  • @npccannonfodder7259
    @npccannonfodder72596 жыл бұрын

    To be honest I see most near my home at south eastern part of Mercedes between Weslaco, and la Féria, or Harlingen, especially during the summer mournings

  • @jeremyratliff5175
    @jeremyratliff51755 жыл бұрын

    There is a flock of about fifty or so south of Dallas in Duncanville or Desoto area. There is another flock that lives near Whiterock lake. You always hear them before you see them... Very cool.... most of the people in Dallas have no idea they live here.

  • @WesleyAPEX

    @WesleyAPEX

    5 жыл бұрын

    Jeremy Ratliff those are Monk Parakeets

  • @WesleyAPEX
    @WesleyAPEX7 ай бұрын

    Did any of them survive the 2021 February ice age?

  • @texasparksandwildlife

    @texasparksandwildlife

    4 ай бұрын

    Yes, we can tell because people have been posting pictures of them on iNaturalist. You can view their observations by date and location, and folks are still spotting them today. However, their conservation status in the area is still "imperiled" which means the population is at risk of collapsing and extremely cold temperatures definitely don't help. www.inaturalist.org/taxa/18976-Amazona-viridigenalis

  • @JackOfAllTradesButMasterOfNone
    @JackOfAllTradesButMasterOfNone10 ай бұрын

    I think we might have these little guys here in El Paso! 😅 I’ve noticed a small flock of around 10 to 15 of them in the evenings.

  • @trinidaddy9562
    @trinidaddy95622 жыл бұрын

    That the park down my street, there's always parrots out there

  • @sophiafunworldatthepark6740
    @sophiafunworldatthepark67403 жыл бұрын

    we got to see parrot at our backyard enjoy our fruit tree, we live in the heart of Houston TX.

  • @mrxxbrian
    @mrxxbrian4 жыл бұрын

    They're all over Los Angeles County too (after they escaped from a pet store that caught on fire 30-40 years ago)

  • @kathysahagian7478

    @kathysahagian7478

    3 жыл бұрын

    I used to see the yellow fronted Amazon in LA in the 70s and I had what they used to refer to as a Mexican red head (amazon). I never saw the red ones wild. The urban legends whereever and whatever kind is out there is either that a pet store lost them (in LA) the studios lost them or that owners lost single ones. San Francisco has cherry headed conures and Austin when I lived there had Quaker parrot ( aka monk parakeet). Quakers have also been spotted in Florida and incredibly in Hyde park Chicago. Because they have large communal nests often on electric wires or radio towers they keep each other warm. the houses look like squirrel nests and are like condos with multiple holes and compartments in them.

  • @lavidaenelvalledetexas7525
    @lavidaenelvalledetexas75253 жыл бұрын

    Every morning they fly past my house and before sunset they can be seen flying back. I live in Mercedes Tx

  • @paulatexana
    @paulatexana10 ай бұрын

    Just saw one today in Houston!!!

  • @thetokingtoad1000
    @thetokingtoad10006 жыл бұрын

    I know I'm not the only one here thinking about that parrot off of Deep Blue Sea when watching this!

  • @debbieturner6073
    @debbieturner60734 жыл бұрын

    I see them every morning

  • @anaizargarzacuellar902
    @anaizargarzacuellar9025 жыл бұрын

    see them every year.. pharr tx

  • @thefishylife6823
    @thefishylife68236 жыл бұрын

    I've seen these parrots in Galveston TX!!!

  • @laprietayelguero

    @laprietayelguero

    6 жыл бұрын

    The Fishy Life ! Really! where in Gtown? A lot of them?

  • @soundwave6083

    @soundwave6083

    6 жыл бұрын

    No, you have seen Monk Parakeets. They are a non-native species that has made its own populations in the upper Gulf Coast region.

  • @WesleyAPEX

    @WesleyAPEX

    5 жыл бұрын

    Brandon Sivek Monk Parakeets are in Dallas too

  • @ashleyflower7887

    @ashleyflower7887

    5 жыл бұрын

    CC too! Just saw them today. (:

  • @rosekowis8366

    @rosekowis8366

    4 жыл бұрын

    They are in corpus christi texas also

  • @crucial2025
    @crucial20254 жыл бұрын

    We see then here too in Houston!

  • @colleenoller9163
    @colleenoller91633 жыл бұрын

    Mexican red headed parrot that what thier call or green cheeks parrots thier on list for indangerous speices ❤❤❤❤the video

  • @quantumaquatic1767
    @quantumaquatic17674 жыл бұрын

    I have seen these in san antonio texas years ago

  • @childrey14
    @childrey14 Жыл бұрын

    They're Red Crown Amazon parrots and these are very smart and emotionally intelligent birds with lots of individual personality.

  • @jonraborn3396
    @jonraborn33962 жыл бұрын

    sweet hearts lassie & flipper

  • @bruh.407
    @bruh.407 Жыл бұрын

    I own 2 of those birds

  • @patrickorosco1638
    @patrickorosco16385 жыл бұрын

    Theres red crowned parrots here as well in California. In los Angeles and a few other cities.

  • @Noodleydoo
    @Noodleydoo4 жыл бұрын

    I hope somebody sees this post. I live close to 2222 and Mopac here in Austin. For the past year I have been seeing and hearing large parrots from my back yard--they are large, green, with relatively long tails and their squawking is unmistakable. They stay pretty high in the air and trees so I can't say for sure, but I could swear I see red on their heads when they get close enough. I usually see 3 or 4 of them at a time, but just last week I saw approximately 20 of them in a large tree in my back yard. I am very familiar with Monk Parrots which are smaller from my experience. I didn't even know red-headed parrots existed until I did some research online! Anyway i'd love to hear from somebody who knows these birds. I am an outdoors guy who fossil hunts and fishes so I am very familiar with Texas wildlife.

  • @texasparksandwildlife

    @texasparksandwildlife

    4 жыл бұрын

    There are a few Mitred Parakeets free-flying around Austin. Sounds like that's what you're seeing.

  • @Noodleydoo

    @Noodleydoo

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@texasparksandwildlife Hmmm interesting and thanks for the quick reply. I will keep an eye and ear out to see if I can get a better ID. Thanks again!

  • @kathysahagian7478

    @kathysahagian7478

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@texasparksandwildlife I didn't know that. I lived in Austin 12 years and only saw quakers as far as I could tell and I was very interested. I always stopped whatever I was doing and watched them. The first day I was there I took my dog outside and a quaker flew down to a lower branch broke off a little piece and chewed on it. I said well hi there, what are you doing? He looked at me squeaked and flew away with her stick. That was my first Austin greeting and I was thrilled.

  • @jhonsalchijhon5992

    @jhonsalchijhon5992

    10 ай бұрын

    get a life or a job

  • @Sunshine_day
    @Sunshine_day Жыл бұрын

    There's wild parrots in Tarrant and Dallas County also. I'm not sure what breed.

  • @reidblanchard8636
    @reidblanchard86366 жыл бұрын

    I've seen these in Pearland.

  • @ErikaMartinez-ux7sh
    @ErikaMartinez-ux7sh3 жыл бұрын

    There a lot of them in Laredo, Texas right now!

  • @_cora._rubio

    @_cora._rubio

    3 жыл бұрын

    Could I got one as a pet..?

  • @user-rb1fn3yl8o

    @user-rb1fn3yl8o

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Coraila Paniagua NO you’ll be get find and they are an endangered species

  • @tedjacobs23
    @tedjacobs233 жыл бұрын

    there is at least 20 to 30 in Garland, Texas

  • @martinvargasbruno5117
    @martinvargasbruno51175 жыл бұрын

    Go to tidwell and Ralston...they hang out at the shell gas station

  • @hunting-with-handy3504
    @hunting-with-handy35046 жыл бұрын

    There is a small parrot population in Freeport, Tx. but I am unsure if they are Red-Crowned.

  • @corysonnier3248

    @corysonnier3248

    4 жыл бұрын

    I dont think they are red crowned. I know of a flock of about 50 but I dont remember seeing any red on them.

  • @roberthurtado4810
    @roberthurtado4810 Жыл бұрын

    I have see them in group of parrot in Galveston Tx in the area of Kemah and Houston Tx

  • @harukatakahashi8822
    @harukatakahashi88225 жыл бұрын

    x3 hehe I lived in south texas

  • @droidomz
    @droidomz3 жыл бұрын

    PVC degrades in sunlight (UV radiation) so those Nest Boxes impact strength is affected and would be dangerous to use IMO.

  • @kayliechiwi2200
    @kayliechiwi22005 жыл бұрын

    I have a parrot like this that was abandoned

  • @notfbi6440
    @notfbi64405 жыл бұрын

    Saw a group of them at the Whataburger off Ben White in Austin.

  • @kathysahagian7478

    @kathysahagian7478

    3 жыл бұрын

    I used to go there for chili dogs but Dan's for hamburgers, Lived close by. Do you mean the red the Amazon or the quaker parakeets

  • @kathysahagian7478

    @kathysahagian7478

    3 жыл бұрын

    I lived there 12 years and never saw anything other than the Quakers

  • @frankeycrawford
    @frankeycrawford5 жыл бұрын

    They are big in Dallas I see them all the time around my house

  • @natalielindholm3277

    @natalielindholm3277

    4 жыл бұрын

    You are seeing Monk parakeets, not Red-crowned parrots or green parakeets.

  • @dylxnchn
    @dylxnchn5 жыл бұрын

    *there are a BUNCHHH of these parrots in southern california i see them fly in groups and love to stay near the beaches warmth, theyre not new*

  • @wilwatson6660

    @wilwatson6660

    4 жыл бұрын

    I have observed several Monk parakeet colonies in southern Brazoria Co. Tx. The birds are seen nesting, and feeding in large flocks, especially in the Freeport TX area. I also observed a LG flock of Red cap Parakeets in Surf Side TX

  • @debbieturner6073
    @debbieturner60734 жыл бұрын

    There in Houston to

  • @adriancancino3745
    @adriancancino37453 жыл бұрын

    Bro im at olivera park rn and i just saw 2 groups

  • @Tsiri09
    @Tsiri096 жыл бұрын

    It's sick that people take these birds for the black market. Buy from a REPUTABLE dealer only and check his/her license first.

  • @RLN1972
    @RLN1972 Жыл бұрын

    tons of quaker parrot colonies around Houston Galveston area

  • @deneshverma2702
    @deneshverma27024 жыл бұрын

    Classification and phylum

  • @notjdub9823
    @notjdub9823 Жыл бұрын

    We have parrots here in Dallas tx

  • @galacticknight8322
    @galacticknight83224 жыл бұрын

    I seen in Pasadena tx

  • @tinthecanman
    @tinthecanman3 жыл бұрын

    I have two red crowned Amazons as pets

  • @amm019
    @amm019 Жыл бұрын

    So these parrots came to Texas naturally and they're not descendants of released pets, like the ones in Miami?

  • @texasparksandwildlife

    @texasparksandwildlife

    11 ай бұрын

    They are native to a small region of northeastern Mexico and South Texas. They were first recorded there in 1885, apparently as a result of a severe drought in Mexico.

  • @allgoodoutdoorsllc2020
    @allgoodoutdoorsllc20206 жыл бұрын

    They have those all over Austin

  • @johndavis8924

    @johndavis8924

    6 жыл бұрын

    The ones in Austin are a different species. They are Monk Parrots. They are not a native species.

  • @allgoodoutdoorsllc2020

    @allgoodoutdoorsllc2020

    6 жыл бұрын

    O I see awesome

  • @WesleyAPEX

    @WesleyAPEX

    5 жыл бұрын

    John Davis Monk Parakeets should still be protected. The state of Texas doesn’t do anything about the non native doves or grackles so why get rid of parrots??

  • @natalielindholm3277

    @natalielindholm3277

    4 жыл бұрын

    WesleyAPEX, if I am not mistaken there is no bag limit on the Eurasian collared dove during the dove season.

  • @kathysahagian7478

    @kathysahagian7478

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@natalielindholm3277 sad

  • @jimmybelcher7768
    @jimmybelcher77685 ай бұрын

    Anyone ever see them in the Corpus area

  • @texasparksandwildlife

    @texasparksandwildlife

    5 ай бұрын

    You can use iNaturalist to see if other people have spotted them in the Corpus area, but it looks like there haven't been any observations posted. There are some documented observations near South Padre though. www.inaturalist.org/taxa/18976-Amazona-viridigenalis

  • @kevinvaldez4982
    @kevinvaldez49826 жыл бұрын

    Didn't even know that they were native. I've seen them in Houston ;and Austin. I always thought that they were released pets.

  • @johndavis8924

    @johndavis8924

    6 жыл бұрын

    The ones in Houston and Austin are not native. They are Monk Parrots. They were escapees that have now become established in many big cities across the south.

  • @jessebrickman8488
    @jessebrickman84884 жыл бұрын

    I prefer to see green parakeets chiriri.

  • @joshua6423
    @joshua6423 Жыл бұрын

    I have a red crowned parrot

  • @jhonsalchijhon5992
    @jhonsalchijhon599210 ай бұрын

    the mexican red crowned parrot

  • @clayhendricks929
    @clayhendricks9296 жыл бұрын

    Leave the birds

  • @deanfirnatine7814
    @deanfirnatine78143 жыл бұрын

    How about the death penalty for trading in wild animals it will save the poor animals and clean out the societal refuse

  • @elpejo6821
    @elpejo68213 жыл бұрын

    So many eyes and no brains lol all they need to do is record the parrots and put the video in slow motion I can do that with my phone 🤦🏻‍♂️

  • @soulassassin0g
    @soulassassin0g3 ай бұрын

    Just like actual Texans they somehow ended up in California.