With Jay's timely observation, the World Parrot Count is coming up, and Texas has a lot of interesting escapees/releases/feral/native parrots to count if they're in your area --- http://cityparrots.org/world-parrot-count/ -h >>> Dear Parrot researchers, Citizen scientists and Parrot friends, You are cordially invited to join the "World Parrot Count 2013". We invite you to take part in this global parrot census this January and February in order to get much needed scientific data about parrots living in cities around the globe. This count is the 3rd edition. For further information please visit the following website: http://cityparrots.org/world-parrot-count/ If you have any questions please contact us via the following E-mail address: parrotcount@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Please feel free to forward this message to everybody who could be interested. We would like to create a global parrot community of professional researchers, field ornithologists as well as amateur naturalists that will enable us to measure the development of native and non-native parrots living in cities. This year we are especially interested to hear back from the threatened Amazon parrot populations in California, USA. See you at the roost! All best, Roelant Jonker (Leiden University, The Netherlands) Michael Braun (Heidelberg University, Germany) https://www.facebook.com/cityparrots Happy trails, -h Heidi Trudell Marathon, TX -- Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. - Mark Twain Big Bend Birds & Nature - http://www.bigbendnature.com Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at //www.freelists.org/list/texbirds Reposting of traffic from TEXBIRDS is prohibited without seeking permission from the List Owner