Winnie the parrot's new name fits the bill / Decadelong bird visitor is a fussy eater, jealous too

Updated on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at 10:43 by City Parrots

Winnie the parrot likes the peanuts, sunflower seeds, apples and bananas that Marilyn Pon feeds her. Photo by Robert Noel BlauBerkeley's free parrot of Prince Street, who has spent 10 years visiting us through our bedroom window ("A fussy bird moves in," July 9, 2005), has turned out to be a girl.

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A fussy bird moves in

Wilson, the Free Parrot of Prince Street, stops by a Berkeley house twice a day to say hello and grab some chow. Photo by Marilyn Pon, special to the Chronicle Credit: Marilyn PonReaders intrigued by the wild parrots of Telegraph Hill may be interested in Berkeley's Free Parrot of Prince Street. This small yellow- crowned, green Amazon parrot with a metal tethering ring around its right leg was originally one of a pair that were already frequenting the Ashby BART neighborhood when we moved here more than 20 years ago.

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