Wild parakeet breeding populations are established in more than 30 countries They're good at adapting to new environments, and there are few natural predators outside native area Love them or hate ...

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The parakeet is one of the the world’s most successful invasive species. Though they are not native to the UK, ring-necked parakeets are now so numerous here that they qualify as a common British bird ...

Native to Africa and the Indian subcontinent, parakeets may look out of place in London skies, but they are anything but. Many of the UK’s native birds have struggled to cope with urban life, and ...

Bird organisations say more research on the species needed to control impact on other wildlife In the past 20 years, the soundscape in the ancient wild, rolling landscape of Richmond Park has been ...

Love them or hate them, there's no denying their growing numbers have added an explosion of color to the city's streets. Park visitors offer food to ring-necked parakeets in Kensington Park, London.

Titled "Not in the countryside please! Investigating UK residents’ perceptions of an introduced species, the ring-necked parakeet," the study centres on an online survey of 3,947 residents ...