The Nanday Parakeet also known as the Black-hooded Parakeet is native to the Pantanal region of South America including Brazil which is where I saw them. However, they also have been released as caged birds in various places around the world and have established feral populations including Los Angeles, San Antonio and various places in Florida. I have an interesting story about one that lived for a long time in Morehead City in North Carolina. For many years the locals in that town loved their resident Nanday which lived in a hole excavated from a telephone pole. So when the phone company decided to cut down that pole in favor of a metal replacement, the locals were pissed off! They demanded that the phone company accommodate the Nanday and that is exactly what they did. They cut out the section of pole that had the nesting cavity and they spliced a 3-4 foot section of the old wood pole onto the metal one! The first picture below is from that very pole in Morehead City! The last photo is from Brazil. Regarding the bird in Morehead, John Fussell (RIP) used to joke that you could tell how cold it was by how many Starlings the Nanday allowed into his hole. If it was really cold, it was a 5 Starling night!
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