I didn't realize until today...

[kalibex]

...that there are parrots (Monk Parakeets, to be exact), living in Bridgeport, year-round! (As well as in a number of Long Island Sound shore towns up the CT coast.) Amazing! Raucous, green and yellow, they construct large stick nests (the ones I saw - 3 nests! - were in a large pine tree). A bit of 'net research revealed that their origin story is that the ancestors of the present lot escaped a crate at JFK airport some years back, naturalized, and have been here ever since...

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[bexmonster.livejournal.com]

How do they survive the winter? ? ?

[drake57.livejournal.com]

Wow, you'd think they'd survive better down here. We have a flock of about 20 green noisy Parrots (not sure what kind they are)or Parakeets.

[kalibex.livejournal.com]

Not sure about the pine tree nesters, but some around the area make the nests atop power transformer poles*, I read - where the residual heat helps them survive the cold. I can only surmise that the evergreen-ness of the pines offer shelter from show accumulation, plus that those large (maybe lined with shed or moulted feathers, too?) sticky nests make a little cave-y shelter for them.

Supposedly there are some in NY state, too - including in Brooklyn.

*Few years back, local power company tried to 'euthanize' the power pole birds, but a wave of outraged public disapproval forced them to cancel that campaign. They do still proactively remove forming nests from poles, though - claiming that the nests cause risks of transformer box shorts, endangering the electricity transmission.