 Caged birds have been released in some areas, and the birds have established self-sustaining populations in Los Angeles, California, San Antonio, Texas, and several areas of Florida (including Pasco, Sarasota, Pinellas, Manatee, Broward, and Miami-Dade Counties).Another self-sustaining population has existed for several decades in Israel, near the city of Pardes Hanna-Karkur.The nanday parakeet was previously regarded as a member of the monotypic genus "Nandayus" Bonaparte, 1854 one of the rough 16 genera of Neotropical parrots of tribe Arini which includes the conures and macaws.