Welcome to Beth's Back Yard.
Featuring

The Wild Quakers of South Florida
(Quakers, Family: Psittacidae Species: Myiopsitta monachus)

Beth is a co-worker of mine that lives in a special area where wild Quakers visit her bird feeders. Daily she reports the morning Quaker Count at work. Recently she reported 17 QPs in her back yard so she decided to "click a few snaps". I started this page for Beth in July of 1997 and it has been so popular that I wanted to expand it and make it a spin-off of QuakerVille so here we go.
It's fun and games time, the Quaker way.
  Click the "Birdie Icons" for more

In Beth's Back Yard you will find Quakers, lot's of them. Big Quakers, small Quakers, all are noisy Quakers. These Monk Parakeets are very beautiful and exhibit a personality unlike about any other wild bird on planet earth. Click the Icon to the left to count the wild Quakers.
Imported from Southern South America, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile, and Peru, starting in the early 1950's these little green parakeets have increased their wild status in the Northern Hemisphere mainly by owners releasing unwanted companion birds to the wild or breeders releasing older birds to the wild. Recently, a study was taken and found that there were between 6 thousand and 26 thousand wild Quakers in the USA located mainly in Florida, Texas, New Jersey, and many other states. QuakerVille is extending to anyone with wild quakers the oppertunity to be involved with the counting and researching the quantity of quakers in North America. If you have feral quakers close by and would like to be involved, click [ place icon here] to leave me a message. You will return to this page. Click the birdie to see a neat panoramic shot.
Personally, I have seen, photographed, and recorded, hundreds in the wild in South Florida where I live. This is a story in photos of the Wild Quakers of South Florida. From Beth's Back Yard I will connect you with some of the neatest wild Quaker sights and sounds. Click the Birdie ICON to the left to see more backyard photos.
When you visit the linked page associated with this birdie Icon you will be taken to three pages of photos I have taken over the past year of the wild ones of South Florida. I also have recorded several tracks of wild quaker audio for your listening pleasure. The photos are a little large and will take just a little while to download but you will be rewarded with some pretty neat photos of wild quakers in trees, flying, carrying twigs, and an assortment of other things. I hope you enjoy these feral Quaker pages.
Capturing the audio of these little green guys is particularly interesting in this area. Click the Icon to the left to visit the feral quaker audio page. You will be able to listen to three different cuts of audio prepared for the Internet in diferent ways. The largest of the files are large, full stereo CD quality audio cuts of quakers flying, playing, and socializing. The smaller versions are compressed and mono'd versions to save bandwidth.

If you have a quaker, download the .wav audio files and let your quaker companion have a listen. Keep an eye on his reactions. Enjoy.

As copyrighted material you may use them in your computer but please refrain from commercial use.

To contact Beth Click > HERE <.
When you click the Quaker Icons to the left you will be rewarded by a new page link explaining about the wild Quakers of Chicago's Hyde Park. You will enjoy this link about the Wild Ones of Chicago. Jason South has done a great job keeping us up on the activities in Chicago.

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