This book is a resource for nature lovers, pet owners, animal professionals, city planners, and utility companies in the quest to formulate more humane programs to assimilate free-living parrots in our cities.

"I SAW PARROTS IN NEW YORK CITY " by George Sommers is the new children's book published by Wiggles Press that explains how these exotic birds journeyed thousands of miles from South America to New York City and how they adapted from a tropical rainforest to the ultimate cold and gritty northern urban environment. This new book is fun and offers educational reading for kids, and the lavish color on site photos are sure to captivate birdwatchers, pet parrot owners, nature enthusiasts and New York City fanciers of all ages.

Reclusive David Huntington writes rigorously meaningless poetry to great acclaim. But he lives fearfully, sleeping and working with earplugs, rarely going outside, drawing his life more closely around him every day. A wild parrot, a gift from his father, becomes the breach in the dike: Little Wittgenstein has a jungle shriek, fierce eyes, and a beak that wreaks havoc. David finally throws the bird out the window--and follows it into the world. His guilty search for the parrot takes him first to Telegraph Hill, where the parrot may have found others of its kind. Inexorably David is drawn even farther, lured to South America by rumors of an ancient flock in the wild mangrove swamps. There he meets the lovely level-headed Fern, an American scientist who has her own reasons for searching for the birds. Will he retreat, or follow the parrots' call? Jim Paul has created a tender, whimsical romance, told with wit and subtlety, about having the courage to heed the messages the world sends you, and to welcome unexpected love.

"The first book to look at naturalized parrots with a global perspective, with a wide range of chapters by 36 leading researchers"--

A unique guide to the unusual and often surprising birds that soar above our cities around the world. From frigatebirds wheeling over Rio de Janeiro to bowerbirds displaying in the suburbs of Canberra, penguins in Cape Town to pelicans in San Francisco, and huge flocks of starlings roosting around the Colosseum in Rome, the world’s cities are home to a remarkable array of feathered citizens. Through Stephen Moss’s expert knowledge and insight, Urban Aviary provides a beautiful guide to some of the most extraordinary species of city birds that have become native, including helpful spotting hints and fact boxes for each bird, all of which are brought to life by Marc Martin’s distinctive and beautiful watercolours.

Alice's friend Bo Parrot tells her about the smuggling trade in rare birds, and its consequences.