I'll keep this going just a small bit because Dave has said he has an interest in it and Meena suggested that it might be a Monk Parakeet. And it was a "bird in the wild". It wasn't a Monk--didn't look like any of the ones on the sites that Meena pointed me to. And there are several things that i remember further about it that might narrow it down more. The head was, as I said, small, but more than that, it was "bald", in the sense that the feathers came up from the body to a collar that then sort of rounded into the neck in a rounded ring that turned into the body (like it was waring a coat with a muff at the top). The small head was like a vulture head. It had the small beady eyes and chunky yellow bill of a parakeet, and these dominated the head appearance. The body was slimmer than the Monk Parakeets pictured on the websites. And the tail was long and thin (like a thrasher?), and out of proportioned long to the body (at least to those of us who look at robins, red-wings, bluebirds, and orioles most of the time). So, long tail, slim body, 11 inches long, tail long and straight, round muff-like collar. Bald head with parakeet beak and eye. Grey body with dark blue in tail. Hey, what about a "tropical exotic
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