Turns out, this bird you can change.

An escaped parakeet has joined a flock of sparrows and has been living free in the wilds of Central Park for the past month — but the bright green birdie only has a few short weeks before the incoming cold weather threatens her life.

Birders are desperately trying to capture the parakeet for its own safety so it doesn’t have to face New York winter temperatures — but the frisky free bird they’ve adoringly dubbed Mei Mei has completely shed her domesticity and no longer wants anything to do with caged life. 6

“She’s become a sparrow. Literally … But she doesn’t know what’s coming,” said Sean Mintz of the Upper East Side, who has been chronicling Mei Mei’s sightings on his X account Bagels & Walks.

“The fact that she was taken in gives her a

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