Green invasion! Population size doubles in 10 years

[s1962a]

This might be one for Reform to fix

[POIDH]

Bloody forriners, being born over here and sh*tt*ng on our cars!

[vixen1700]

We're on their evening flightpath as flocks of them fly West into Central London.

A wave of iridescent green flying and squawking.

[s1962a]

We see them in our garden too. Usually in the evenings during summer and they are loud but not annoyingly so.

Can't believe a whole population exists due a small number of birds being released. I guess we started that way as well

article said:

Some believe the species became established in 1950 after birds were released from the jungle set of “The African Queen”, built in the London area.

Another theory is that the recording artist Jimi Hendrix released a pair in Carnaby Street in 1966.

[hyperblue]

Went on a vineyard tour in Sussex a few years back, they had birds of prey to deter DFL parakeets as could apparently a flock could strip the grapes from the vineyard pretty quick.

[dai1983]

I don't go to London much but had to double take when I saw a few of them squarking in a tree when visiting with the GF last year.

[RustyMX5]

There are loads of them between Cookham and Henley-On-Thames and there seems to be a breeding site just by a garden centre called Toad Hall.

[XCP]

Some living at Studland in Dorset too.

[mwstewart]

They make for a nice curry.

[scenario8]

We were saying at the beginning of the year how few there were around this year. There were hardly any to be seen in January so we were concerned there was something serious going on. There are scores out there this evening so all is well.

The crows can FRO, mind.

[Derek Smith]

I went to a rugby match, level 4, at a ground in the London outer suburbs, this around the late 2000s. I was setting up my camera in the stands when I saw a dark cloud coming across fields towards me. It looked surreal. It was joined by a smaller cloud. They came over a hedge and then soared into some trees around the ground. Thousands of them. You did not want to look like a seed. Noisy. They settled down but as the pitch lights came on, they got a bit restless.

I asked one of the other spectators, and it was obvious he wasn't a fan.

They looked very pretty.

[Spare tyre]

We were in a park by the docks in Southampton and they were there, my folks live about 8 miles from central Southampton and they have been sited at their gaff

[jdw100]

They are getting absolutely everywhere!

I even saw some in Australia.

[rodericb]

jdw100 said:

They are getting absolutely everywhere!

I even saw some in Australia.

Indian ring-necked parrot. They're a pest animal: https://agriculture.vic.gov.au/biosecurity/pest-an...

[jdw100]

rodericb said:

jdw100 said:

They are getting absolutely everywhere!

I even saw some in Australia.

Indian ring-necked parrot. They're a pest animal: https://agriculture.vic.gov.au/biosecurity/pest-an...

I also saw parrots….

[texaxile]

jdw100 said:

I also saw parrots .

I also saw parrots .