Nanday Café is a neighbourhood coffee, breakfast and lunch spot in an olive-green Old Florida cottage on Beach Blvd — named for the wild green parakeets that have been chattering over Gulfport for decades.
1969 — the story of the nanday parakeet
Nanday parakeet · black-hooded, lime-green, impossible to ignore.
Native to South America.
First recorded flying free in St. Petersburg in 1969.
More than 200,000 were imported for the pet trade between 1968 and 1990.
Escapes and releases led to free-flying flocks.
Today they’re the unofficial mascot of Pinellas County — frequently seen, and heard.
Import figures according to a 2004 paper in Florida Field Naturalist.
The cottage on Beach Blvd
An olive-green Old Florida cottage with white porch rails and purple Adirondack chairs. Gravel out front, a courtyard out back, cozy seats inside. It’s the former home of GulfPerk Coffee Bar, which closed after Hurricane Helene — and it’s open again, every day from 8.
