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An Explosion Of Green Parakeets Is Causing Big Problems On Kauai

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If you've ever been near Lawai Beach Resort at sunset, you can hear the racket they make as they fly in to roost.

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An Explosion Of Green Parakeets Is Causing Big Problems On Kauai - Honolulu Civil Beat

Wild rose-ringed parakeets feast on fruit and corn crops, screech noisily and attract rats. Researchers say native birds are at risk.
www.civilbeat.org
Along Kauai’s resort-studded south shore, thousands of wild rose-ringed parakeets with bright green feathers and brilliant red beaks obliterate hotel parking lots and vehicles daily with their poop. Full of seeds, the bird dung attracts rats. If not quickly removed, it can ruin car paint.

At least one Poipu hotel diverts staff for two hours every morning to remove the bird droppings with a pressure washer.

The parakeets are also a noisy nuisance, especially while screeching as they gather by the thousands at night to roost.

And they are a bane to farmers and backyard growers, decimating corn crops and fruit trees to satisfy a taste for citrus, papaya, mango, lychee, rambutan, longan and more. Some farms are investing significant resources to prevent their crops from becoming bird feed.
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Sounds like something that would be cool to see as a tourist, but of course it is actually a real problem...
 
1Kflyerguy said:
Sounds like something that would be cool to see as a tourist, but of course it is actually a real problem...
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The last time we went to the Beach House for dinner, we pulled over on the side of the road when we were coming back just to watch all of them flying in. It was amazing, but I can understand what a problem invasive species can be. I've been fighting buckthorn in my backyard for years.
 
Probably kinda cute for the first 15 minutes or so, but daily clean-up would be a PITA! Arsenic laced birdseed anyone? (probably not legal, but you get the idea) Maybe some kind of parakeet birth control.

With a nod to the title of the thread, maybe exploding the little buggers would work!
 
artringwald said:
They're looking into it. They're going to have to do something.
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DDT worked pretty well with eagles (thinning their shells). Darn near wiped them out, but they'd have to find a way to restrict access to other birds.
 
Put a bounty on them and give the kids pellet guns. It probably wouldn't work. Kids are too busy on their phones. Maybe serve them to tourists as Hawaian food, lol. I bet they taste like chicken.

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artringwald said:
The last time we went to the Beach House for dinner, we pulled over on the side of the road when we were coming back just to watch all of them flying in. It was amazing, but I can understand what a problem invasive species can be. I've been fighting buckthorn in my backyard for years.
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Art, have you ever been by the Banyon tree at the courthouse square in Lahaina when the sun goes down? There is a cacophony of birds chirping. I wonder if they are green parakeets also?
 
Are they an invasive species? Not native to the island?
 
BJRSanDiego said:
Art, have you ever been by the Banyon tree at the courthouse square in Lahaina when the sun goes down? There is a cacophony of birds chirping. I wonder if they are green parakeets also?
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I have not, but I've been under Banyon trees in Waikiki and Kona at sunrise and sunset, and they are very noisy. As far as I know, parakeets aren't a problem on other islands besides Kauai.
 
dioxide45 said:
Are they an invasive species? Not native to the island?
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According to the article, they're invasive.
Transported to the Garden Isle as pets and then either intentionally or mistakenly released into the wild in the 1960s, the birds now number at least 11,000 on Kauai, according to the scientists who study them.
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The authorities have been studying the problem for years and have not come up with a solution. There is nothing cute about them as it is a major problem both noise wise and sanitary wise.
 
Geez, I don't believe in killing living things. I think they should capture them and send them to the states for pet stores. I love parakeets. But are these parakeets the same as those you find in the pet stores?
 
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rickandcindy23 said:
Geez, I don't believe in killing living things. I think they should capture them and send them to the states for pet stores. I love parakeets. But are these parakeets the same as those you find in the pet stores?
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Sometimes, like in the case of snake heads and constrictors in Florida, by saving the life of an invader, we destroy the lives of local fauna. Of course parakeets aren't predators, but even competition for food with native animals can cause harm beyond simple nuisance.
 
Ty1on said:
Sometimes, like in the case of snake heads and constrictors in Florida, by saving the life of an invader, we destroy the lives of local fauna. Of course parakeets aren't predators, but even competition for food with native animals can cause harm beyond simple nuisance.
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I am sure. When we see those nasty mongoose crossing the road on Maui, I tell Rick that killing them is not really a bad thing. They are eating the eggs of ground-nesting birds. Birds, though. I mean, I love birds. How can there be a bird that people want to kill?
 
I haven't had a parakeet noise problem in Hawaii yet but I have been woke by doves and frogs. Doves are very loud. Some places we have stayed don't have air conditioners but with open windows it feels very fresh and comfortable. The problem has been doves or a rooster. Both are very loud at sunrise.

Once we had the rooster with dementia going off in the middle of the night. I had thought about doing everyone a favor and wringing its neck but figured they must be protected as every one staying before us likely had the same problem.

We bring ear plugs anymore. Sometimes it doesn't really help.

Bill
 
easyrider said:
I haven't had a parakeet noise problem in Hawaii yet but I have been woke by doves and frogs. Doves are very loud. Some places we have stayed don't have air conditioners but with open windows it feels very fresh and comfortable. The problem has been doves or a rooster. Both are very loud at sunrise.

Once we had the rooster with dementia going off in the middle of the night. I had thought about doing everyone a favor and wringing its neck but figured they must be protected as every one staying before us likely had the same problem.

We bring ear plugs anymore. Sometimes it doesn't really help.

Bill
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I love the doves! It's how I know I'm in Hawaii. (The roosters, not so much!)
 
Capture the Parakeets and let the pet stores sell them as pets all over the USA. Give the proceeds to the Homeless on HI.



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