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Article: IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE : FERAL PARROTS FLOCK, SQUAWK IN SOUTHLAND.(NEWS)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- April 5, 1997
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Byline: Luz Villarreal Daily News Staff Writer
They fly out from towering eucalyptus canopies like little Lear jets, cutting across the sky with a trademark squawk usually reserved to the bird cage.
These are, after all, parrots. But green and loud, flying free in groups of two, 10, 40 and more, these wild birds are turning heads from Malibu through the San Fernando Valley to South Pasadena.
Local lore has its own explanations for why the exotic birds are here. Remember Busch Gardens? Word has it that many of today's parrots were fugitives from the Van Nuys park's bird sanctuary before it closed in 1979.
Then there are more plausible ...