Ring-Necked Parakeets

[Moodybluebird]

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There are loads of myths as to how they came to being released, including one involving Jimmy Hendrix releasing a load. I have family in Surrey and the actual reason is that in the great storms of 1987 a roof blew off a large local aviary and a load of them escaped. My sister regularly has six or more of them on her bird feeders. They are noisy bastards though

Indeed they are. My son lives in Greenford and they're flying around his house most of the day. I think they roost in Perivale Park, which is just around the corner from him.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Apparently, these parrots were brought over by some rich bloke hundreds of years ago. They escaped (obviously) and adapted to the climate. Very prevalent in Kent. Interesting.

You're just repeating what you heard.

[the other bob wilson]

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As something of an ornithologist, I was amazed to see the Ring Necked Parakeet included in a book of bird visitors to British Gardens that was published in the nineties. I can remember looking into how they arrived in the country at the time and my findings matched what the RSPB website says today - it's impossible to pin down exactly how it happened, but it seems to have taken place sometime in the seventies.

I notice that the RSPB's page on the bird says that they are still limited to the south east of England and that "Birds are regularly reported elsewhere in Britain, and are likely to be local escapees.".

https://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/policy-insight/species/invasive-non-native-species/ring-necked-parakeets/

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/ring-necked-parakeet/

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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As something of an ornithologist, I was amazed to see the Ring Necked Parakeet included in a book of bird visitors to British Gardens that was published in the nineties. I can remember looking into how they arrived in the country at the time and my findings matched what the RSPB website says today - it's impossible to pin down exactly how it happened, but it seems to have taken place sometime in the seventies.

I notice that the RSPB's page on the bird says that they are still limited to the south east of England and that "Birds are regularly reported elsewhere in Britain, and are likely to be local escapees.".

https://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/policy-insight/species/invasive-non-native-species/ring-necked-parakeets/

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wi...cked-parakeet/

When I visited Australia I suddenly saw a flock of parrots flying overhead and my initial split-second thought was that they must have escaped from somewhere...

[Tuerto]

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You're just repeating what you heard.

[bobh]

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When I visited Australia I suddenly saw a flock of parrots flying overhead and my initial split-second thought was that they must have escaped from somewhere...

That's right.
Some Aussies took them home from Britain and they afapted to the warm climate and escaped...

[tforturton]

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I visited Barcelona a couple of years ago, and noticed large flocks of parakeets around the city. I thought that was odd at the time, until I saw similar groups of birds in London. Now it seems they're spreading across the country. I blame climate change. There will be crocodiles in the Taff soon...

[Moodybluebird]

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That's right.
Some Aussies took them home from Britain and they afapted to the warm climate and escaped...

When I went to Australia a few years ago, I was walking along one of the main thoroughfares in Sydney when quite a few Sulphur Crested Cockatoos flew over my head. Made a refreshing change from the pigeons and marauding gulls you see in Queen Street.

[OurManFlint II]

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I visited Barcelona a couple of years ago, and noticed large flocks of parakeets around the city. I thought that was odd at the time, until I saw similar groups of birds in London. Now it seems they're spreading across the country. I blame climate change. There will be crocodiles in the Taff soon...

Its a war in Barcelona, 7 different types of the noisy f***kers, in some places where they cause damage the city has introduced Falcon to combat them.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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That actually makes sense. Michael Fish' fault.

Michael Fish wasn't German.

[Tuerto]

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Michael Fish wasn't German.

Obviously, because if he was, that weather forecast would've been spot on and down to the minute. That's the Germans for you.

[light up the darkness]

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We have a psittacula alexandri in our apartment called kango. Also called a red chested parakeet.

I’ve never seen one anywhere else

[Tuerto]

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We have a psittacula alexandri in our apartment called kango. Also called a red chested parakeet.

I’ve never seen one anywhere else

Kango must be doing alright if he's renting his own apartment.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Kango must be doing alright if he's renting his own apartment.

He knows the drill.

[NYCBlue]

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Isn't there some urban legend about them having escaped from Marc Bolan's house?