San Francisco is known for its hills, its bridges, and — less famously — a noisy flock of wild parrots that has nothing to do with the city's native wildlife at all. An Unlikely Flock, Decades in the Making The birds are cherry-headed conures, a species also known as red-masked parakeets. They aren't native to California; the flock descends from escaped or released pet … [Read more...] about A San Francisco Woman Fed Wild Parrots for Years — Then the Flock Brought Its Babies to Meet Her