How does a parrot take part in the daily commute? 🤔 That isn’t the start of a joke – in one of Germany’s major cities, yellow-headed Amazon parrots actually use the warmth created by traffic to survive the chilly winters. ❄️ At 50 birds strong, the parrot population of Stuttgart is thriving, with a comparatively high breeding rate thanks to the lack of poachers and predators. These highly adaptable birds are descended from exotic pets and have roosted in the city’s parks and streets for 25 years. Like the rest of the world’s 70,000 urban parrots, they’re of great interest to conservationists: With wild parrot numbers in steep decline, could they one day provide the genetic diversity needed to save populations? 🦜
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