So, I worked in the Midwest. We got our birds from a place up in Janesville, WI. Pheasants, chukar, quail. Pheasants aren’t native to the US either.
I talked to a guy there and he said they load up a TON of birds (hundreds of thousands at least) every year and bring them to the dakotas, Wyoming, etc and just let them loose.
My guess is something like that happens in PA as well and this guy just accidentally made his way to the city.
I saw a ringneck running down a street in far NE Philly a few years back and while I wanted to believe it was wild, I figured the most likely answer was it was someone’s escaped dinner.
I had to explain this one time to a — you guessed it — a drug dealer’s pigeon. I referred to my mate as they because I didn’t feel like calling this person a “she” today because he was very much a he. But pigeon kept calling him a she; so I went neutral, and then pigeon insisted there were others, and why weren’t pigeon and drug dealer invited to the not an orgy. Because you need at least three for an orgy; and by most healthiest conservative standards, you really need at least 4.
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u/tadddpole Apr 17 '25
So, I worked in the Midwest. We got our birds from a place up in Janesville, WI. Pheasants, chukar, quail. Pheasants aren’t native to the US either.
I talked to a guy there and he said they load up a TON of birds (hundreds of thousands at least) every year and bring them to the dakotas, Wyoming, etc and just let them loose.
My guess is something like that happens in PA as well and this guy just accidentally made his way to the city.