In her backyard is a guava tree, and in the tree hangs a cage containing two magnificent green birds. They are parakeets, his grandmother says. Francisco has never seen birds so green, so beautiful.

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To be precise, there are only three to four species of parrots native to the United States. Two of these parrots are parakeets: the Carolina parakeet and the green parakeet.

The green parrots that live on the tropical paradise of Seychelles fly into the bamboo stalks next to Micheleine Georges’ 150-year-old farmhouse at dusk. The birds are small and cute.