Yes, I was totally stunned seeing those green flocks of very loud birds all around the Kent. Amazing. Could not believe my own eyes. So fascinating. But after 6 years, got used to them as to any other native Brittish birdies.

Just seen around 30 of them a tree full in the backcountry around a local fishing pool beautiful green

Loads in Liverpool, Sefton and Newsham parks.

I think they are cute

I've looked this up because I've seen 2 in east London mile end park where i Live in the past few weeks I'm worried about them so im looking it up they are such lovely sweet chatty intelligent birds 💚💛💙

There are absolutely tons of these birds flying around Sutton Coldfield in Birmingham, I’ve been working on a roof & can hear them, I counted seven altogether fly above me one day then 12/13 of them another It’s quite funny, the customer has lived at the property for 4 & half years & didn’t even realise, looked at me like I was crazy 😝

this video was really interesting! i live in france and it's been a few years since i first saw these birds and i think they are amazing!

Lots in Harlow , Essex and surrounding area

Interesting I'll need to keep my eyes open when around Glasgow

I've been watching the parakeet invasion for some years, and made a film about it in 2016 which you can see at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/actgeMeSurjFk3U.html Some points: These birds were almost certainly first imported into England by the Romans. A Roman wall painting of the 1st century AD was excavated in Lime Street in the city of London, and it showed a pair of unmistakable Rose-Ringed Parakeets (which are the species of ring-necked parakeets we have here). The birds had been imported to the west along the Silk Road for some time previously, and there is an earlier mosaic from Pergamon in Asia Minor that shows one. They continued to come to England during the Middle Ages. The old word 'popinjay' denotes a parakeet. (That's not in my film, I didn't know at the time.) During all these centuries they must have escaped from houses and aviaries but were unable to survive the winter, even in the medieval warm period when temperatures were higher than they are now. Rose-Ringed Parakeets are a southern species, not the same as the tougher species of ring-necked parakeet whose natural habitat extends into the foothills of the Himalayas. Of course escapes were spotted in the wild, but I don't think they lived long. I think the crucial change happened in the late 20th century, date uncertain, but the location seems to have been Kingston in southwest London. A random mutation produced a race of extra-hardy parakeets that could survive the winter. The first really large permanent population was observed in Kingston, and there are still thousands of them there. It's possible that the entire western European population of green parakeets is descended from these birds, but note that in some places another species, the Monk Parakeet, has become a pest. As you rightly say, the legends about _The African Queen_ and Jimi Hendrix are a load of rubbish. Parakeets really do drive smaller hole-nesting birds out of their holes, and I have seen this happen (shown in my film). They also, by their sheer dominance, drive out most of the native songbirds from an area where they cluster. I have been watching birds daily in Kensington Gardens, and have seen how when people start feeding parakeets in a particular spot they turn it from a diverse habitat into a dull monoculture of shrieking green pests. It's sad to watch. Also, parakeets destroy trees by stripping them of leaf and flower buds. They chew the bud briefly to squeeze out a bit of sweet sap, instantly spit it out and move on to the next one, so a few birds can cause widespread damage. You see carpets of stripped chewed buds on the ground under a denuded tree. I report on parakeets and other park birds in my daily blog at kensingtongardensandhydeparkbirds.blogspot.com/ which I have kept up uninterrupted for almost twelve years. On the day that I write this, my blog had a video of parakeets stripping the berries from a myrtle bush.

Saw two ,about a month ago in MANCHESTER, NEAR HEATON PARK 🇬🇧

I saw a Dodo last week in Oxford city Center

Population has exploded in london on the last few years

It is not a invasion! Many like me love and welcome them. I have watched them for years, they do not harm or take other birds home! This is lies from Racist people who think they are invaders. I love them. Many were born here! They are Brit birds now.

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