Has anyone seen "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill"

[GCP]

It's become one of my favorite movies of all time. Mark Bittner is a wonderful zen-like guy in SF who started feeding and taking care of wild parrots while he was living on Telegraph Hill - one of my favorite places in the world.
The movie is gentle and beautiful and has a lovely ending - I highly recommend it.

[cwydro]

1. I read the book

it was fantastic:hi:

[GCP]

2. Then you've got to see the movie

It's excellent (out of DVD). I also read the book and I'd love to meet Mark - he seems like a really nice guy.

[cwydro]

3. thanks

I'll check it out:hi:

[AlienGirl]

4. It is lovely!

What I found most interesting was wild parrots who had feather-destructive behaviors like caged parrots sometimes develop. I'd really like to know more, were these feather-pluckers who escaped and continued the behavior, or does feather-plucking happen to psychologically vulnerable wild-born parrots too?

Tucker

[Puglover]

5. Did you also know that

Brooklyn NY has colonies of wild parrots. They think they escaped from a shipment in the 60s.

[sarge43]

9. Florida is filled with them - budgies, monk parrots, etc

There was even a colony of monk parrots aka quakers parrots living in Chicago some years ago. I don't know if they're still there.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

12. Yeah, Monk (Quaker) Parakeets.

There's colonies of them in NJ, too.

[xchrom]

6. one of the wonderful, wacky things that makes s.f. grand.

that movie is as wonderful as the parrots.

[Dem2theMax]

7. Loved it. Laughed, cried, beautiful film.

Having lost one African Grey to illness, watching some of those parrots get sick and die just about killed me. My other Grey thinks he is a people, not a bird. So he didn't care a bit about the film. The dork! LOL. I always try to get him to watch 'birds on tv' but he's more interested in what kind of food is on the kitchen table. :)

[Kat45]

8. YES! I loved that movie.

The birds were beautiful and (most of) the story was so sweet.

[sakabatou]

10. Don't need to

I see them every now and then. We also have wild parrots in Palo Alto.

[wildhorses]

11. thanks for the info. I will keep my eye out for it and the book

also:hi:

[EFerrari]

13. Parrots AND Telegraph Hill in the SAME movie?

How did I miss that?! Is it widely available?

When I lived in Berkeley in the 80s/90s, we had a flock of wild love birds, too! One day, soon after I moved into my very first house on the corner of Berkely Way and Acton, this beautiful green cloud landed in the trees outside of my kitchen window. It was so shocking, I called the police, lol! They laughed at/with me and told me, that flock has been around for 25 years.

:)

[GCP]

14. It sounds like the same flock

The parrots in the movie are green with red heads - Cherry Headed Conures.
I got the DVD from Netflix. I'm sure you'll love it.