Where Do Perching Birds Live?

Video Transcript

"The parrots are not indigenous to the United States, none of the parrots that we have live in the United States. Some have come to live in the United States because of various reasons. One, them escaping, another would be people just getting fed up with the bird and letting it outside. Most of your larger birds wouldn't last a day or so, some of your smaller ones are very resilient and they actually will be fine, and adjust and breed. Quakers live in the United States now, so do parrots, parakeets, cockatiels, a lot of conures they're just really hardy birds. They just really, can really deal with a lot of situations. And in a lot of, in fact in a lot, I think fifteen or twenty states that, I think a Quaker parrot is illegal, because if it gets out it's such, they just damage crops so horribly and these birds don't have a, there's no predator in America for the birds so nothing to really keep them from thriving, like when Australia put the, brought those frogs over, for something and they just got out of control because there was nothing to kill the frogs. Red ants here, they say the red ants aren't indigenous to the states, that's why they're so out of control, because there's nothing to keep the population from expanding. So when these Quakers and conures get out, they just get in flocks of two-hundred and they just do some damage, you know they'll go through fields and all kinds of stuff, so. Cockatiels are from Australia, which is interesting, something so small, you know is only from Australia, I think that's kind of neat. Macaws are from Central America, and North America. And then the Sun Conure is from, it lives in Brazil, and the south, northeast South America. Most parrots live in burrows and holes in trees, some being trees, your macaws, most of them actually on like rock ledges which you wouldn't think, being something so pretty would be in a tree, in a rainforest, but they live these really, not very pretty ledges, most of the time. Parakeets can live in what I think, I mean lovebirds take over termite mounds, and burrows, so it's really interesting, the different places they live."