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The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
In the 1990s street musician Mark Bittner was house sitting on Telegraph Hill when he discovered a population of wild tropical parrots living in the heart of San Francisco. The birds, 130 cherry-headed and blue-crowned conures, appeared to be escaped pets that had prospered on their own. For a decade Bittner observed the flock and studied their behavior. In 2004 Bittner published a book, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill which was later turned into a documentary film by the same name. Today Bittner is a recognized expert on wild parrots and teaches on the subject.
*Full disclosure: this isn't a photo of one of the actual wild parrots, but in my defense I did climb the many Telegraph Hill stairs on four occasions trying to capture them.
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4 Comments:
There is another flock of them that hangs out around Lafayette Park, the flock flies around my apartment building every morning.
Beautiful close-up of that bird.
You can see them in the trees near Coit Tower (you will probably hear them before you see them) in the area between Montgomery and Filbert.
I really enjoyed the documentary (cute end, too!:)
I always hear the birds but I never actually see them. That was a very sweet movie, too.
In the afternoons they move down to Walton Plaza and then over by Embarcadero 3 (is that Lafayette Park?).
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