Through most of the summer, we got screeched awake every morning by nature's alarm clock, the Red-crowned Amazon, Amazona viridigenalis also known as the Red-crowned Parrot, Green-cheeked Amazon, or Mexican Red-headed Parrot. Apparently they're endangered in their native northeastern Mexico, but they're pretty plentiful up here in the San Gabriel Valley.
I ain't complaining - much, but these guys get up early and they love to talk. This particular one was getting ready to chow down in a tree near my "office," so I snapped a pic. There are a few different parrot species flyin' around LA County, but these are the ones I see the most. If you're waking up to screechin' in the early hours, might be it ain't your downstairs neighbors. Unless they look like this:
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