There are loads of them around where I live in Devon.
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Seen loads in London but just saw my first one in Rumney. I'd heard that they were moving further west but didn't expect to see one so soon. Noisy blighters mind and such a giveaway if you hear one.
There are loads of them around where I live in Devon.
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.
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
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/pol...ked-parakeets/
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wi...cked-parakeet/
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...