The rose-ringed parakeet is a very common parakeet throughout Africa and Asia. In North America, this species has been introduced to California and Florida. This species is named for its pink ring around the neck of this species. In North America, the Indian subspecies manillensis is the type most likely to be seen.

In North America, there are no longer any native species of parrots, sadly. The last native parrot, the Carolina parakeet, died out in 1918. This species was formerly endemic to the eastern US, from Colorado to Florida. It even lived as far north as New York, and was a vagrant to places even further north. It even was recorded in southern Ontario! However, it was hunted for its colorful feathers, which were used to adorn hats. Also, invasive honeybees competed for trees for nesting sites, and this species was regarded as a “menace” and a pest by farmers, due to its behavior of ripping open apples to get at the seeds. This bird also had “funerals, where many parakeets would mourn over the loss of a member of the flock. However, hunters could easily shoot many parakeets in this way, and this resulted in large numbers dying out. By the 1860s to the early 1900s, it became restricted to the swamps of Florida, and soon, it vanished from the wild. The last individual, named “Incas” died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1918.

After that, the only other North American parrot, the Thick-billed parrot, disappeared from Arizona and New Mexico. Thankfully, that parrot species is still alive, as it is still found in Mexico. It used to appear in areas as far north as Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas in the US. However, the last individuals in the US died out in 1938.

There are around eight species of feral parrots in North America, with the Rose-ringed parakeet being one of them. Most North American feral parrots are from South America, with a handful of Old World (Europe, Africa, and Asia) parrots also found as escapees.

One day, James Centhil was walking around his factory, looking bored. “I’ve tried”, “And tried” “Yet all my machines and robots turn into evil machines which destroy the planet.” Suddenly, he came up with a plan. “I will build a CenthilBot!” “It will not destroy anything.”

After 2 seconds, the blueprint for the robot was finished and it was ready to be built. First, James Centhil pressurized the air around the area of the CenthilBot. After that, he made pressurized carbon around the area and made a diamond base. Next, he covered it with boron. After that, he added the deadly compartments.

Once the base was finished, James Centhil made compartments for all the syringes and things that a medical robot would need. Then, he started filling them.

He made a mixture he thought was very good. It was his favorite, one made from orange juice. Actually, not oranges, but synthetic oranges. He made synthetic Fanta.

However, during the making of the Synthetic Fanta, the evil James Wallace Cottage-Hampshire Snickerdoodle sabotaged it. He changed the mixture to C6760N10447O2010S32, also known as botulinum toxin!

After that, James Centhil gave the CenthilBot some of the drink.

To be Continued

Well, the vampire finch at first glance seems like another ordinary finch, Right? However, the name gives away the most unusual behavior of this bird – it eats blood.

And not just any blood, the specific blood of the Nazca and Blue-footed boobies. (I wonder, why only these birds?) People believe that the boobies willingly let them drink the blood because it rids them of parasites. Maybe they only choose these birds because they have special parasites that are tasty for them.

Well, this is how they drink the blood.

1. They peck a hole through the boobies’ feathers

2. They drink the blood from that area

That seems pretty simple for this bird. However, it supplements this strange diet with a more finch-like diet. It drinks the nectar of the Galapagos prickly pear (Opuntia echios gigantea).

When the 19th century naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882) visited the Galapagos Islands, he discovered 15 different species of finches. The vampire finch was among them. From what he discovered, each one of the finches had evolved to fill a different niche in all the islands. Some were blood-eaters (Vampire finch), nut-crackers (Large ground finch), and grub-catchers (Woodpecker finch).

Despite the name, these birds are not finches. They are called finches because after Charles Darwin brought the specimens to Europe, the ornithologist John Gould misidentified them as common, or true finches.

The ancestors of the tribe Geospinizi (many people group all these finches into their own little group) are probably Eurasian Rose finches that got blown over from Russia thousands of years ago.

The descendents of these rose finches soon adapted to the environment. When they got to the Galapagos, it was easy to do this because there was such a plentiful bounty of food.

I am a potato. No seriously, I am Frank Billy Joe. I have been working in the mountie service for twelve years in the Alberta Mountain forests. This is my usual day. SSSSS!!!!!!!! Oh! That’s my alarm! (My best friend, Jeremy Frank Bob, a Massasauga Diamondback Rattlesnake   has become my alarm. ) So I mounted my Veery (songbird), and flew over the forests of Alberta. I then landed near a small clear, which was very close to where the supreme gem of EH was located. So I checked. It was there. Then I saw a long arm detach from a giant falcon-shaped robot. It took the gem and put it in an internal compartment. This happened in 6 picoseconds. Then I knew there was trouble. I told Jeremy these instructions in potato: “œ∑∂å∂ ƒ†¥ø! Óåß∂  ∫µ√ç ¥∆∫ ∆µ∂ß œ∑å!” (That means, Stop him! Don’t let him get away with the gem!). Jeremy faithfully followed my command. I knew that this was the work of my immortal enemy, the dark falcon. Potato: ´ÂŒ∑ †Ïı√Ω. English: “Flying Arsenic.” Judging from that translation, one can tell he was terrible. Jeremy went slithering to our cabin. It was only 3 meters away. Jeremy went to the laser-guarded security system and found the Veery-bot. “This will do. Meanwhile, Frank was also there to get the snake-bot, which he could use to attack the falcon-bot when it comes within striking range. So Jeremy flew up in the Veery bot and used the grappling hooks to perch on the railing of the ship: A giant black Lego Block. (Well, his craft looks like a Lego Block.) So he managed to clamber into the bottom without being seen. Then, I flew into one of the many suction tubes leading into his control system. Here, everything is fit for beak control. So the dark  falcon was busy into the control. It was time to go into fast mode. Here I quickly set the controls of his ship to self distruct. It was counting in falcon. Kleep, Keeee, Keee, Keeee, Keeee Keeee, Kellep, Keelp. BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The ship was destroyed. All the falcon-bots were destroyed. Those who escaped Jeremy were attacked by Frank down below. However, the dark falcon escaped. No one, as of yet, is able to catch him. Finally, we can rest. Ahh, Maple Syrup, Pancakes, and Hot Chocolate is a refreshing meal. After this we work the night shift. Now we will have to defeat the Dark Owl. (I will talk about him later.) For now, it was a good day. (We did retrieve the supreme gem of EH.

Recently, I have become interested in war and have been focusing on World War II (1939-1945). I am mainly interested in war around the Asia-Pacific region, and I have learned about the Japanese Empire along with it. This is how it started:

In World War I, Japan was on the side of America, Britain, France, and the USSR, known as the Allies. However, when the peace treaty was drawn, Japan felt like it did not have enough land, so in 1940, a year or so after World War II broke out, Japan, along with Italy and Germany, signed the Tripartite act, and joined together to form the Axis. Japan had a short war with Russia over the province of Manchuria, known as the Russo-Japanese War, and Japan won the war. On September 8, 1931, Japan won Manchuria due to the Mudken Incident, which happened due to bombing on a Manchurian railroad. Soon the Japanese spilled into China and attacked the Capital, Nanking, in 1937. In 1939, World War II broke out, and Japan signed the Tripartite act in 1940 (See above). Yet on December 7, 1941, Japan launched a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii. This brought the US into the war. In May 1942, the US had a major victory over the Japanese in the Coral Sea, and by June 1942, the US won the Battle of Midway as well, and the Japanese Empire was coming to an end. By 1944, Burma was liberated by the British, and by 1945, the Japanese surrendered due to the two Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Code names “Little Boy” and “Fat Man”). That was the end of the Japanese Empire.

The Ornate Hawk-eagle, a bird found in Tropical South America, is a stealthy eagle that hunts prey from treetops. It is usually found in warm climate, which the birds thrive in. However, 30 to 20 millions years ago, the tropics extended further north than usual, reaching the United States. This climate change helped the Ornate Hawk-eagle spread further north, possibly as far as Nebraska.

When the climate changed again and began to cool down, Hawk-eagles began to decline in the United States and moved on to South America, so today, we do not see Hawk-eagles in Nebraska.

The fact giant eagles lived in North America is amazing, and North America at that time was home to many different kinds of mammals, the new masters of the Earth ever since 40 million years ago. Daedon, nicknamed the killer pig, was the top predator at that time in North America. Certain South American birds of 1 million year ago, like Argentavis, a giant bird that hunted small horses. It hunted them possibly by landing on them and killing them with a heavy blow. Perhaps  Hawk-eagles in Nebraska possibly hunted the same, except with smaller prey.