News from Maureen and Bill Perrie, who have seen and filmed some rather
exotic birds.
Over the last few weeks we have first heard and then seen
ring-necked parakeets in the park – usually in the trees in the swampy ground at the ‘cascades’ end of the duck-pond, and in the neighbouring parkland.Today Bill managed to video a pair of them in the trees.
He’s posted it on YouTube – here’s the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwZJSHuiPkY
There’s quite a lot of information about these birds on the internet.
Most of them are in the south-east of England.
There seems to be quite bit of controversy about whether they spread by extending their existing territory, or whether new flocks are created from escaped caged birds. Also debate about how much of a nuisance they are – or likely to become.
Hope this is of interest to fellow park-lovers.
Best wishes,
Maureen and Bill
Watch the video – and tell yourself it wasn’t a typo… not ring-neck pheasants (though there may well be some of those too), but ring-neck parakeets!
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1 Webmaster // Oct 29, 2009 at 18:09
Was told about these by a fellow dog walker this afternoon. Will take the camera tomorrow (before the colder weather sets in) and take a look
2 Tigger's mate Margaret // Nov 11, 2009 at 20:55
I spotted them when I was out in the park this afternoon. I’d seen green parakeets in parks in London, but was a bit surprised and wondered whether I really seeing them or ….
3 Sally Bradbrook // Dec 28, 2009 at 16:46
We have them here too…in Turkey, in Istanbul, and on the Aegean coast…here people say a flock escaped from a ship…they aren’t native to Turkey.
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