green parakeets
Kauai, HAWAII — Thousands of wild rose-ringed parakeets with bright green feathers and brilliant red beaks obliterate hotel parking lots and vehicles daily with their poop.
And they are a bane to farmers and backyard growers, decimating corn crops and fruit trees to satisfy a taste for citrus,...

![On Kauai, the invasive rose-ringed parakeet population explosion is threatening small farmers’ crops. The birds have been observed devouring fruits including longan, lychee, mango, orange and corn seed. [photo courtesy: Arindam Aditya/2021 via Civil Beat] Parakeet eating a mango](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/wild_parakeet_in_hawaii_web.jpg?itok=TSgJtIE2)