Get wild right down the street. This episode we podcast from the Wissahickon Valley in Philadelphia and talk about the wild parks right next to or right in our cities. We hear from Akshay Vishwanath of the Friends of Nairobi National Park in Kenya and Cora Rimaldi, who birds the Reserva Ecologica Costanera Sur in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where Billy fondly remembers the tegus. What are the pressures facing wild lands next to growing cities? What does “wild” mean when it’s post-industrial? Let’s talk about it.

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What are rose-ringed parakeets doing in London, or in Tokyo, or Amsterdam, or in Glasgow…? Learn about how escaped pets birds are colonizing cities around the globe. Matt Halley joins us to talk about his own parrot field work and to discuss urban parakeets. We hear from Krishna Girish of Off Road Birder to learn about the rose-ringed parakeets in their native range (Bangalore), we hear from Ralph Hancock of London to hear about how their exotic parakeets feed the local raptors, and we go back to Sourav Mahmud to hear about his work to help the alexandrine parakeets of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

(and we wind up with some bonus urban birding discussion with Krishna)

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