S.F.'s parrots join flight to the suburbs

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The wild parrots of Telegraph Hill, apparently jaded by city life, have headed for the suburbs.

The goofy, green birds are now the mild parrots of Brisbane.

"We've got a pool, a park, and now we've got parrots. They make more noise than the airplanes," said Ron Davis, a Brisbane real estate agent and longtime resident.

San Francisco's famed flock of cherry-headed conures, immortalized in an award-winning movie and book, has become so populous that about 100 or so birds have fled San Francisco for the verdant slopes of San Bruno Mountain, where they're feasting on juniper and hawthorn berries and delighting the locals with their acrobatics.