Parrots return to San Diego

The Red-crowned Amazon parrots made their boisterous return a couple weeks ago.
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[@stevopusser9093]

I don't know about the beaches, but they live year-round in the East County. Some began flying around Santee a few years ago, probably expanded from the hundreds in El Cajon.

[@angelq.7656]

I saw them last year in Spring Valley.

[@e.a.r.9155]

I'd see hundreds of them flying from Lakeside to El Cajon, see them while driving thru Spring Valley, then see hundreds of them while working down at the beach.

[@cardiffchris]

A group of them live in OB/Point Loma, sometimes they eat from my plum trees.

[@GREVIEWS02]

This is what i want my journalism to lool like.😊

[@e.a.r.9155]

Working at a lady's house painting in Point Loma.. she Said they had seen some blue ones, and 2 giant white parrots.

[@josephtube24]

I see them in the trees at Point Loma, flocks of them all happy.

[@davidnguyen7853]

Beautiful bird I saw 2 of them in anaheim ca

[@AutanCalifornia]

There are some in Chula by Coronado Ave .. they are so beautiful 🙏🏻

[@jorgeguzman4044]

They are in Linda vista as well they come and eat my sunflowers

[@jorgeguzman4044]

They are very loud when they come visit

[@ArtOg-pt4jm]

They probably came from L.A. like most of San Diego's people.

[@blakeaaron5698]

Why is population so small?

[@rikkisan1]

Simple, we took their home

[@Fake_Jesus]

BS. There must be 10,000 in El Cajon alone.
2,500 birds in the world?🤣 Sorry, that is way off.

[@user-jc7jb3bu5s]

Endangered...B.S! L.A loaded with them!

[@stevopusser9093]

Make jokes about migrating across the border, but there are now more of this species of parrot in California then there are left alive in the wild in Mexico, due to destruction of habitat and capture for the pet trade. They are native to lowland forests along the NE Mexican coast...some think they actually may occur naturally at times just north of the border in southernmost Texas. That would make them a native US species if true, with a whole 'nother set of legal protections. Right now, since they are considered non-native, you could take their chicks from their nests for pets here without any restrictions, as an example.