| ▲ | Experts Warn of Growing Parrot Crisis in Canada(ctvnews.ca) |
| 60 points by debo_ 5 days ago | 27 comments |
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| ▲ | amatecha 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Parrots and similar birds are awesome, and crazy intelligent. Seriously, watch this lil guy straight-up browsing YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_b8kWYvGkI , or this one, so awesome haha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZSNhJcKFf4 , probably my favorite video ever of a bird |
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| ▲ | canada_dry 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Absolutely gorgeous and extremely smart creatures. They generally bond with one care giver and when that person dies it really is a traumatic event for the bird. Birds that are traumatized pick out their feathers and look terrible. You can tell from the videos of their birds that they are well looked after. This organization (and those like it) are fantastic! |
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| ▲ | hristov 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| In the northeastern towns of la county there entire flocks of wild parrots flying around, that are escaped or freed pet parrots or descendants from such pet parrots. I guess parrots would not survive in the wild in canada, but if you have parrot you can no longer care for, maybe you could consider releasing it in the la foothills. He will have friends there. Maybe is the key word here. I am not a parrot expert. |
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| ▲ | unsnap_biceps 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | No, the vast majority of parrots released into the wild will just die a terrible death. They don't have a flock to live with and don't know how to survive. It's like if you took a bunch of TikTok influencers and threw them into a random forest completely without any support or help. Some will figure it out, but most would not, even if the weather won't kill them right away, they'll eat the wrong thing, drink the wrong thing, or not know how to protect themselves from other animals. | | |
| ▲ | adityaathalye an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Apparently, they actually have a whole hit "reality" show that does it without fatalities; "Naked and Afraid". But they get training, and have an "out" back into civilisation. So I can completely imagine they---the poor hapless tiktok influencers---meeting the unfortunate captive parrot's fate, if suddenly sent out into the maw of the wild, without any warning, preparation, or way back to second dibs at a home. | |
| ▲ | shevy-java 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Except that there are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_parrot#Other How many there are in absolute numbers I don't know, but your depiction of all parrots being too stupid to live in the wild is also incorrect. And other animals die too all of the time, so that is not a good assessment. | | |
| ▲ | squigz 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | GP didn't say all parrots wouldn't survive - they said a majority wouldn't without a flock, which your link seems to at least partially agree with. |
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| ▲ | throwup238 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Oh you sweet summer child, you have clearly never lived in Southern California. I can identify the flock by the sound they make in the morning. |
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| ▲ | NewJazz 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Lol please don't release random parrots. Even if they happen to be the species common in LA, if they aren't members of the wild flock they might get bullied. | |
| ▲ | walthamstow 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | London has a massive population of feral parakeets, they can survive quite far north of the weather is mild. London is basically an urban forest so that does help. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_parakeets_in_Great_Brita... | | |
| ▲ | gizajob 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Liverpool too. Big flock of them in Sefton park in the south of the city. Pretty nice to see actually! |
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| ▲ | bauruine 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | You never release exotic pets to the wild. Isn't that common knowledge by now? If you can no longer care for an animal bring it to the vet to get it euthanized. | | |
| ▲ | shevy-java 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Did you ask the bird whether it wants to be nuked by you - or, by proxy, the vet - here? I don't call murder "euthanization" - that is just propaganda to sell to yourself that you have the right to decide who lives and who does not. | | |
| ▲ | bauruine 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Releasing it is just murder by neglect so people don't feel bad about themself that they actually killed their pet just because "they can't care" for it anymore aka they don't want to deal with the minor inconvenience of caring for a pet anymore. Or worse they become a pest that wipes out whole local ecosystems. |
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| ▲ | SoftTalker 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Cue the Monty Python jokes |
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| ▲ | glimshe 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| No offense, but lately I've had somewhat more pressing things to worry about... |
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| ▲ | ornornor 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | They’re living things, just like you are. And they’re paying the price of our poor decisions without any agency in the matter. | |
| ▲ | AngryData 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I mean to a lot of people a parrot isn't much of a step below human due to their extraordinary intelligence. There are a considerable number of people that if they were trolley problemed against a parrot I would likely save the parrot. We captured them against their will and put them into an artificial environment where they can't even survive without direct constant human help and they live for many decades and have a high emotional intelligence, the least we can do is care for them half decently. | |
| ▲ | tamimio 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Exactly, I think articles like that are just a mockery.. there are 10s of things that can be considered a crisis than a this. | | |
| ▲ | koiueo 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I find no mockery or mean spirit in this article. FWIW I'm Ukrainian, having quite a lot to worry about. | | | |
| ▲ | rsynnott 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Look, what's one more crisis, in 2026? | |
| ▲ | MattGaiser 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Articles are hardly scarce. The barrier to addressing problems in society is not a shortage of people to write about them. |
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| ▲ | androiddrew 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Apparently this is front page material | | |
| ▲ | mhurron 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Ya, that's what it's like living in a country that hasn't been trying to destroy itself for some time now. | | |
| ▲ | steve_adams_86 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | We're able to buy electric cars from China, too. It's a whole civilization here. Of parrots and people |
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