Could be.
These South American parrots should feel right at home in a south-of-the-Equator tree, non?
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Will their chicks soon join the flock in Telegraph Hill?
Or maybe they’ll just end up hanging out in Sue Bierman Park eating flowers:
It will be one or the other, probably…
Just as you could see Mark Bittner feeding wild parrots in the movie Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, you can see people going out of their way to feed wild pigeons on Masonic Avenue. They’re just like the feral cat feeders of Golden Gate Park.
Time for the daily sidewalk feeding:
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Maybe that’s why we have so many pigeons around town.
It used to be that the Wild Parrots of San Francisco kept mostly to the area around Telegraph Hill (as you can see here on the two-DVD Collector’s Edition of the famous movie, just released).
But nowadays, they roam farther afield, giving you more chances to see (and hear) these happy looking birds. Keep looking up to the sky or down in the trees eating plum flowers - you’ll spot them eventually)
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