(Ed.'s Note: Even though it's been 20 years since the appearance of parrots in downtown Brownsville caught the attention of journalists from as far as New York, their daily roosting ritual echoes through the COVID-19 silent core of downtown. The city has adopted them and made the parrot Brownsville's official bird.)
The New York Times
June 5, 2000
Just as the blazing afternoon sun softens and begins to set, the parrots start to arrive, squawking and keening as they wheel high overhead in the blue sky and drop into the upper fronds of palm trees growing along the Rio Grande.
''They do that every night,'' said Jessie Moreno, a cashier at the now-disappeared Fort Brown Hotel, who likes to watch the birds roosting on the hotel grounds. ''They come swooping back here when it starts to get dark and spend the night up in those palm trees. In the morning they'll take off again and fly out over the city looking for food.''
The birds call to each other as they dart from tree to tree, brightly colored slashes of green, yellow and blue, and when a truck backfires nearby they howl and take to the air as one, screaming wildly as they swirl overhead.
''Don't worry,'' Ms. Moreno says, ''they'll be back.''
But the parrots, more than 300 of a species known scientifically as Amazona viridigenalis, are not really supposed to be here in the first place.
Just as the blazing afternoon sun softens and begins to set, the parrots start to arrive, squawking and keening as they wheel high overhead in the blue sky and drop into the upper fronds of palm trees growing along the Rio Grande.
''They do that every night,'' said Jessie Moreno, a cashier at the now-disappeared Fort Brown Hotel, who likes to watch the birds roosting on the hotel grounds. ''They come swooping back here when it starts to get dark and spend the night up in those palm trees. In the morning they'll take off again and fly out over the city looking for food.''
The birds call to each other as they dart from tree to tree, brightly colored slashes of green, yellow and blue, and when a truck backfires nearby they howl and take to the air as one, screaming wildly as they swirl overhead.
''Don't worry,'' Ms. Moreno says, ''they'll be back.''
But the parrots, more than 300 of a species known scientifically as Amazona viridigenalis, are not really supposed to be here in the first place.
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6 comments:
WHAT? Fort Brown disappeared 15 years ago isn't she kinda late for this story. You can thank pat for that.
Brownsville's official bird is the middle finger.
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Y aqui que??? pinche pendejos self-serving idiotas gave away boca chica for WHAT?
I agree middle finger to all
Eso son los hijos de pinche Coco hillbilly jotito parrot! Lol Lo están buscando para Child support! Lol Y no saben que el ahorita esta en el basement de Biden! Lol
BASEMENT? pinche pendejo
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