New Orleans, I bet you get some amazing wildlife in the bayou?
Wow, Chicago and NY, they are obviously far more cold tolerant than I gave them credit for. I'm expecting someone from Alaska along soon!
the Chicago population underwent a large expansion in the 1980s, & i guarantee the winter weather in Chicago in the 80s was famously cold but it seems like if they have enough food (which they can get from feeders from parrot enthusiasts), they'll do well
Harold Washington, first Black mayor of Chicago, in office in the 1980s, considered them his lucky bird & so he & others took them under their wing, so to speak...
(& yes lots of great wildlife, esp birds, in New Orleans)