Oregon Birders,
Monk Parakeets were still present in Yacolt, Clark County, WA (where they
nested for several years) as recently as 2011-- so they may not have
disappeared completely from the Pacific Northwest yet.
Wayne C. Weber
Delta, BC, Canada
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Jeff Fleischer (Redacted sender "raptorrunner97321@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
Sent: April-10-15 10:54 PM
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Cc: MidValley Birds; OBOL Oregon Birders Online
Subject: [obol] Re: Monk Parakeets
Hi Everyone,
To add to Joel's Linn County sightings for this species, I went back through my
records and found an OBOL posting of mine dated May 28, 2003:
"MONK PARAKEET - Found 3 at the Shelburn location
(DeLorme pg 54, B/C 1/2) on Shilling Dr just east of
Miller Cemetery Rd. Two were tending the large nest
on the powerpole adjacent to the road, one was trying
vigorously to jam a good sized stick into the already
existing nest. The third bird was about 100 yards
east of the nest."
Jeff Fleischer
Albany
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From: Joel Geier <joel.geier@xxxxxxxx>
To: Oregon Birders OnLine <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 7:32 PM
Subject: [obol] Re: Monk Parakeets
Hi again all,
Alan McGie sent me a note which pushes forward the last known presence
of wild Monk Parakeets in Oregon, at least to the end of 2001:
"I saw 4 Monk Parakeets feeding on Oregon White Oak buds near
their nest site on a utility pole along Schilling Drive about 3
miles north of Scio on 30 Dec 2001. There were reportedly 8
Monk Parakeets using the nest at that time."
Al also notes that the nest was removed not long after that, though (per
my notes as posted previously) this might not have happened until early
2003.
I suspect that the tendency of these birds to gum up power poles and
transformers with their enormous nests would have had a more direct
impact on human tolerance, than any hypothetical risk to agricultural
crops.
Good birding,
Joel
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Joel Geier
Camp Adair area north of Corvallis
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