{"id":1800,"date":"2006-11-20T11:12:36","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T19:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/11\/parrot_poachers_i_hate_those_guys.html"},"modified":"2006-11-20T11:12:36","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T19:12:36","slug":"parrot_poachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/parrot_poachers.html","title":{"rendered":"Parrot Poachers . . . I Hate Those Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn-based parrot proponents worried about the borough&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/two_terms_you_w.html\">growing poaching problem<\/a> find an ally in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpapers.com\/html\/issues\/_vol29\/29_45\/29_45parrots.html\">Borough President Marty Markowitz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The poaching of Brooklyn&#8217;s wild monk parrots from their perches on neighborhood streets has been ruffling the feathers of bird-lovers for months, and now, the borough&#8217;s parrot-owner-in-chief is taking matters into his own . . . er . . . talons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just reprehensible to me that anyone would try to poach the parrots,&#8221; Borough President Markowitz told The Brooklyn Papers. &#8220;They&#8217;re abusing these beautiful little creatures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His sympathy for the green-feathered birds is not surprising &#8212; he&#8217;s the proud owner of a talking five-year-old African gray parrot named Beep, whose vocabulary includes &#8220;words&#8221; like &#8220;fughedaboutit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have some feelings about parrots,&#8221; acknowledged Markowitz.<\/p>\n<p>Local environmentalists are cautiously optimistic that, with Markowitz on board, something can be done to quell the poaching.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn-based parrot proponents worried about the borough&#8217;s growing poaching problem find an ally in Borough President Marty Markowitz: The poaching of Brooklyn&#8217;s wild monk parrots from their perches on neighborhood streets has been ruffling the feathers of bird-lovers for months, and now, the borough&#8217;s parrot-owner-in-chief is taking matters into his own . . . er [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}