Tropical scenarios for the invasion of green parrots that feed on fruit and especially almonds, with serious damage to production in the province of Bari in a year in which the product is already reduced to a minimum due to the crazy climate, so Coldiretti Puglia has asked the Regional Agriculture Department to provide for a containment and control plan for green parakeets, in agreement with Ispra.
"The countryside - explains a note - have become the Eldorado of fruit and almonds for the parrots that evidently have perfectly adapted to the Apulian microclimate. They especially prefer almonds, demonstrating an extraordinary ability in pecking and breaking the shell, extracting the fruit and leaving the husk and the woody valves attached to the tree. Reports from farmers have multiplied, struck by the increasingly evident presence of flocks of parrots, which recreate a tropical atmosphere, attracting attention with persistent high-pitched sounds ", is the denunciation of Savino Muraglia, president of Coldiretti Puglia.
With the tropicalization of the climate, Coldiretti alarmed, there is an invasion of parrots in the countryside which, from the first settlement in Molfetta, have taken possession of cities and countryside in Bisceglie, Giovinazzo, Palese, Santo Spirito, Bitonto, Bitetto , Palo del Colle, Binetto, Grumo Appula, up to the Alta Murgia.
These are the monk parakeets of the Myiopsitta Bonaparte species, which appeared with a first "settlement" on a eucalyptus in the district of Molfetta "Madonna delle Rose", which then moved on to settle, building 'multifamily' nests.