We received an excited email from a reader stating: "A friendly exotic bird was saved by New Yorkers on the UWS Saturday in freezing temperatures"... with a link to a website retelling this story from the rescuer:
I was on the UWS on Saturday and noticed this bright orange/green/blue bird standing on the sidewalk chirping. It looked pretty out of place. I went to say hi to him and he flew up and landed on the shoulder of one of the people I was with. We figured he must have escaped from an apartment window or something. Poor guy was not equipped to handle the freezing cold, so I held onto him and ventured into Columbia’s campus for help. Everyone was very concerned. Then a student told us he was familiar with a good vet in town and offered to bring him in. Here’s hoping this little bird found his owners!
At first we thought perhaps these well-meaning folk captured one of the city's feral parrots, but our resident bird expert Yojimbot tells us, "Looks like they rescued someone's escaped pet parrotlet. Monk pararkeets are green and white." Doesn't quite look the
