I find no mockery or mean spirit in this article. FWIW I'm Ukrainian, having quite a lot to worry about.

Crises, suffering, and people trying to help are no less valid just because they are juxtaposed with greater crises, suffering, and people trying to help.

Consider that enough users of this site voted for this article to get it on the front page. Clearly the story resonates with enough of them. No need to say basically “what you care about is worthless”, it’s easy just to go on your way if you are not interested.

Look, what's one more crisis, in 2026?

Articles are hardly scarce. The barrier to addressing problems in society is not a shortage of people to write about them.

Then why you spend time on HN and posting comments here?

More like "THIS IS AN EX - PET - PARROT!"

“Pining for the fjords?”

Did you ask the bird whether it wants to be nuked by you - or, by proxy, the vet - here? I don't call murder "euthanization" - that is just propaganda to sell to yourself that you have the right to decide who lives and who does not.

Except that there are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_parrot#Other

How many there are in absolute numbers I don't know, but your depiction of all parrots being too stupid to live in the wild is also incorrect. And other animals die too all of the time, so that is not a good assessment.

Oh you sweet summer child, you have clearly never lived in Southern California.

I can identify the flock by the sound they make in the morning.

Apparently, they actually have a whole hit "reality" show that does it without fatalities; "Naked and Afraid". But they get training, and have an "out" back into civilisation.

So I can completely imagine they---the poor hapless tiktok influencers---meeting the unfortunate captive parrot's fate, if suddenly sent out into the maw of the wild, without any warning, preparation, or way back to second dibs at a home.

Never been to San Francisco, Telegraph Hill apparently. Huge flocks are living there for decades already.

Liverpool too. Big flock of them in Sefton park in the south of the city. Pretty nice to see actually!

I have lots of them showing up outside my office window... E.g. [1]

But the occasional survival eventually leading to a breeding population doesn't mean the odds of survival for released/escaped birds who have grown up in captivity isn't really low.

[1] https://m.galaxybound.com/@vidar/115909920534715199

They're parroting what they read on the internet.

Yes: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-taught-...

Because shops either breed then unnecessarily or they are wild parrots captured from abroad?

It is recommended: a) because you are rehoming an animal that probably went trough a lot and, hopefully, giving them the love they deserve. b) taking care of a parrot properly is very difficult, hence a lot of people give them to sanctuaries that are full to the brim c) decreasing the demand of these species. Both their decrease in their native range and their presence in non native ranges is, even now, caused by the demand of them as pets. Poaching in the Central and Southern America is incredibly high (in certain areas of Honduras is 100% for example) and they are poached to be sold to middlemen that will import them to the rest of the world. Now, since CITES, it’s difficult to find poached animals in NA and EU, but definitely not impossible. The main market is Asia, where they can be sold locally or then transferred to the west. At the same time, aviaries or “parrot mills” (some people call them like that) are the only reason why we have invasive parrots. If a couple of non native species get released by a distracted owners, the couple just ends up dying because they are not used to the environment. If a stock of hundreds or even thousands of animals of the same species escape an aviary they will first become a colony, then an invasive species. This phenomenon is called propagule pressure. Invasive species destabilise the natural balance, and invasive species of parrots are stealing nesting sites of owls and bats already. This is why we should at all cost, decrease the demand of them.