TOKYO PARROTS

TOKYO PARROTS

Yoshinori MIZUTANI

Publisher: amana inc.

Two different covers

When I saw hundreds of parakeets swarming the sky, I was struck by fear. I felt as if I’d walked into the Alfred Hitchcock filmThe Birds.
Every morning, flocks of several parakeets each would fly to the elm tree near my home inTokyo’s Setagaya ward. I watched these flocks arrive daily. Eventually, more and more flocks showed until finally, this strange scene of hundreds of parakeets appeared.

The parakeets had overly bright, lime green wings. These tropical birds were incongruous with theTokyoenvironment and I found their appearance disturbing.

I did some research and found out that these parakeets were brought toJapanin the 1960s and 1970s from tropical regions inIndiaandSri Lankato be sold as pets.
They had since gone wild and madeTokyotheir home. Today, they’ve multiplied to thousands.

Shocked by my encounter of the parakeets, I chased them for about a year afterwards.
They broke up into groups and flew back to their respective nests. I discovered that the biggest nest was in a ginkgo tree on theTokyoinstituteofTechnologycampus in Ookayama, Meguro. I used strobes to photograph the parakeets in the evenings, when they went home.

These parakeets aren’t supposed to exist inTokyo, but they do. And it’s the intensely uncanny feeling I felt when I first saw the swarm, which I’ve captured in these photographs.

Keywords: Animal Snapshot

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Book Size
180 × 244 × 10 mm
Pages
88 pages
Binding
Hard-cover
Language
Japanese, English
Publication Date
2014

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