DSM Monk Parakeets?

[Robert Hibbitts]

So over past couple weeks I thought I had been losing my mind in seeing flashes of monk parakeets near where I live. I usually see a bird and registers as a species and don’t think about it being out of ordinary most of time. 

Today I saw a maybe eight Monk parakeets near Euclid and 7th Street harassing a Cooper’s Hawk in a tree. I just watched them and didn’t pull out phone to try to take a picture because why are there Monk

parakeets in Iowa? Am I seeing this right? 

I searched online and there are records from 2020. Anyone have anything regarding monk parakeets? 

Thanks!

-Robert H Hibbitts

[Jacob Newton]

Looks like there may have been a nesting attempt in 2020-2021, no one kept an eye on it because they "werent countable".  Not impossible that the pair was...eventually successful and you're seeing the subsequent family group. 

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