Photo Of The Day: "Here Come The Bensonhurst Parrots!"

Photo by B.Y. Lei

Spotted on West 4th Street.

A little about New York’s wild parrots via Juniper Civic:

There are many myths and legends surrounding their first appearance here in the early 1970’s, but the most credible explanation is that the parrots we find here now are all related to a flock that was inadvertently released at Kennedy Airport in 1967.

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