The ones in Hyde Park are very bold as people feed them fruit regularly. They will land on your hand and happily eat apple chunks, or land on your head (bit off putting). If one lands on your shoulder you are required by law to do a Pirate impression or face arrest. Seeing them that close you can really see the different shades of colour in the neck ring and round the eyes.
There’s a pretty substantial colony of them in Brooklyn, NYC as well. They’re also supposed to be descended from escaped pets. What’s interesting is that they tend to nest on top of electrical transformer boxes because the heat keeps them warm in the winter.
I live in east London and never saw one of these parakeets until 2015 when I started a job in Perivale. When standing on the tube station platform at Perivale in the evening, I would see small flocks of them flying overhead,squawking like mad. I left that job in 2017 for a job closer to my home. Within three months, there was a pair of parakeets living in our local church yard. The little b*st*rds followed me!!
Yeah, they were in the forest when I was a kid in the 50's. There were certainly a few in Sussex in the 70's. I did find a deceased one, but it may have been just resting.... Ta JH.
Used to have an office overlooking Avery Hill Park in Eltham (worked for the Uni of Greenwich for too many years). The parakeets there were a nice distraction during dull meetings.
Several years ago whilst landing a Fokker 50 at Heathrow (09L) a flock of parakeets shot past the cockpit. They were inches away from the windshield. I almost certainly hit a few and the runway had to be closed for inspection. Air Traffic believed this flock lived in one of the cargo hangars and were the result of freight mishandling. Your story appears to suggest that parakeets were around well before air freight. So that’s another story I’m not able to tell any more.
They first appeared on Animal Magic, the BBC programme with Johnny Morris back in the 1960's, with a short video of them feeding on a bird table in Weybridge. I remember seeing it.
I don't know whether my phone has been listening as we all suspect they do or whether I just got another Jago video in my feed as I'm a subscriber. My recent connection to a parakeet was when one fell down a chimney in an old school building renovated and converted to offices in Hammersmith. It set the alarm off and I as an alarm engineer had the call a member of staff, talk her through checking alarm system log to find that the activation had occurred in a meeting room which (in these Covid-19 times) has not been in use. She entered the room while still on the phone to me and the bird was there in the room just looking at her, apparently not injured. I had to put all this in my job report and my service desk had a good laugh. I have had a few animal related activations over the years but they're still rare enough to be an amusing distraction. The building facilities manager later caught the creature and released it and he then saw it (or maybe a different one) flying around the chimney tops again - probably not that bright.
i was shocked a few weeks ago , when i was staying at my brothers house in sidcup, when i heard a screach and looked up and saw two of these on a roof top, looking down on me
I first saw one of these in Bishop's Park a good few years ago. My wife thought it had escaped, however, when were in the park a couple of years later, there were dozens of them flying about. They're even getting to be common in Glasgow now.
We have lots of them in and around Paris too, mainly in parks of course. Apparently they were released in error from somewhere near Orly Airport and I was under the impression that they had been imported from Latin or Central America. In Barcelona there is a park called the Citadel (a notorious prison during the reign of Franco that has since been demolished) and in it stand quite a few pinetrees known in French as a 'pin parasol' which house enormous numbers of them. I believe the City authorities have been obliged to start dealing with the problem. Round our way in the countryside south of Paris, they have definitely had a negative impact on local populations of smaller native species.
I see them in Hampstead all the time. About 10-20 of them flew by me flying really low up the road. They looked like a gang out to cause trouble. They’ll be wearing little hoodies soon.
We've had twenty-eight in the garden at one time before. If they're in the mood, they'll empty a bird-feeder stand in minutes. Sunflower hearts are particularly popular.
Another clue to their appearance, is that they are not in any field guide books, until the 1990's. Which is odd when you consider how active Bill Oddie was back then. So it took thirty years for them to become common.
Unknown in Australia apparently, except a few in captivity. What is called the Australian Ringnecked Parakeet is actually the larger Ringnecked Parrot. Beside suburban Wahroonga Railway Station on Sydney's North Shore can at sunset be heard the chattering of many hundreds of Rainbow Lorikeets nesting in the adjacent trees. They are a locally native bird.
Welcome in Berlin-Paris Rome… In Stuttgart they have Yellow-Headed Amazon (Yellow-headed parrot) in Berlin-Köln & Düsseldorf it’s the Rose-Ringed Parrot 🦜 (ring-necked parakeet / Indian ringneck parrot)
They were a scourge of apple orchards in East Kent in the 60s and 70s (eating the blossom, thus preventing fruit from forming), so I can remember they go back at least that far. Though my favourite untrue theory is that they were released from the set of Ridley Scott's 'Legend'. Perhaps the real question is, after being present for perhaps two centuries, why are there so many of them now?
I used to go fishing on the river Thames at home park Windsor in the late 80s and there were always flocks of them in the trees back then. Since then they have spread to other parts, my brother lives in Ickenham near Uxbridge and gets several of them in his garden daily, which were not in that area in the 1980s.
I went to watch my team Port Vale play at Leyton Orient on 22/01/22, and a flock of them flew over the ground. I thought I'd imagined it until someone confirmed what I'd seen. A fox also invaded the pitch during the same game.
I know that they had quite a few in Barrow in Furness (circa 2006), but they were down to the local Zoo not securing their pens very well. Same zoo later had one of its workers killed by a tiger for the same reason, iirc.
I lived in SW London, at various places between Kew Gardens, Kingston, and Garrett Lane, Wandsworth, though mostly in West Wimbledon and Raynes Park. between 1986 and 2001, and never saw a green parakeet. :(
@@digede28 I did a stand at Chelsea Flower Show around 2012 and there were loads of them in the trees there making a real racket. I liked them but locals seemed to like to complain about them. Probably because they were shitting on all the Bentlys parked all over.
I have literally NEVER seen these feral parakeets and assumed they were 1 or 2 or 5 escapees in London. Shocked at the numbers... and distribution.. They've never been near us though and my mum puts out enough birdseed every month to sink a ship. Theyre just not anywhere near us I guess.. plenty of pigeons, corvids, woodpeckers, even a possible hoopoe once.. but none of these. I am amazed!
Last summer was the first time I saw them in Reigate although I understand they had been sighted before slightly further north - they make an absolute racket!
Has there been any persistent sightings of them over a number of years starting from a specific point? That would be a good indicator of a successful colony. How are they on climate? The Little Ice Age of Dickens' memory might have killed them off. Then we've the winters of 1947 and 1963, and who know what else to stymie their success. Are they London and Home Counties only? Any in Wales? Or fighting with red squirrels in The Wirral?
I suspect Jago's comment about multiple populations/sources is correct. I've certainly heard the Heathrow theory mentioned below. But have never seen any in Epping Forest or east London, whereas I have seen a flock in Ealing. Makes me think of the red kite - saw them when reintroduced to UK in the Chilterns in the 1980s, now they are all over SE England and East Anglia, probably helped by roadkill as an extra food source.
I've definitely seen them in East London - they've been living around Mudchute Farm and Millwall Park pretty consistently for at least 15 years. Outside of that little patch of green, though, I'm not really sure (although I have seen them in Lewisham and Lee before too)
I thought these birds were native to Australia. I have had one feeding in my yard with the sparrows for the last 2 weeks. I live in Pa. USA...and my beautiful green parakeet is clearly lost..and I don't know how to catch him! Please wish me luck...thank you!
Sort of. The budgie is a specific species of parakeet (native to Australia but found as pets all over the world such as here in Britain; my Grandmother has had several over the years for instance), but when we say parakeet in general we refer to the larger birds like these.
They are everywhere. Those green basterds. We have them now for a couple of years in Haarlem NL and I don't like them because they take the place of our regular birds and they are green and I don't like green
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The ones in Hyde Park are very bold as people feed them fruit regularly. They will land on your hand and happily eat apple chunks, or land on your head (bit off putting). If one lands on your shoulder you are required by law to do a Pirate impression or face arrest. Seeing them that close you can really see the different shades of colour in the neck ring and round the eyes.
A friend of mine mentioned that. I was kind of hoping I could find some that bold while I was filming, but alas, I was not so fortunate.
I saw them last week 😍
There’s a pretty substantial colony of them in Brooklyn, NYC as well. They’re also supposed to be descended from escaped pets. What’s interesting is that they tend to nest on top of electrical transformer boxes because the heat keeps them warm in the winter.
I live in east London and never saw one of these parakeets until 2015 when I started a job in Perivale. When standing on the tube station platform at Perivale in the evening, I would see small flocks of them flying overhead,squawking like mad. I left that job in 2017 for a job closer to my home. Within three months, there was a pair of parakeets living in our local church yard. The little b*st*rds followed me!!
Yeah, they were in the forest when I was a kid in the 50's. There were certainly a few in Sussex in the 70's. I did find a deceased one, but it may have been just resting....
Ta JH.
@@Peter_S_Beautiful plumage though squire....
Used to have an office overlooking Avery Hill Park in Eltham (worked for the Uni of Greenwich for too many years). The parakeets there were a nice distraction during dull meetings.
I remember as a boy watching funerals from my school classroom window during boring lessons. Cemetarty and school adjacent.
I’m 70 and I’ve never seen one. I must be more observant in the future!
The Merton Parakeets sounds like a band!
Several years ago whilst landing a Fokker 50 at Heathrow (09L) a flock of parakeets shot past the cockpit. They were inches away from the windshield. I almost certainly hit a few and the runway had to be closed for inspection. Air Traffic believed this flock lived in one of the cargo hangars and were the result of freight mishandling. Your story appears to suggest that parakeets were around well before air freight. So that’s another story I’m not able to tell any more.
Barcelona is teeming with them. There's a park there where the sound of them is deafening.
Barcelona seems to have another species - South American monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus).
They first appeared on Animal Magic, the BBC programme with Johnny Morris back in the 1960's, with a short video of them feeding on a bird table in Weybridge. I remember seeing it.
I don't know whether my phone has been listening as we all suspect they do or whether I just got another Jago video in my feed as I'm a subscriber. My recent connection to a parakeet was when one fell down a chimney in an old school building renovated and converted to offices in Hammersmith. It set the alarm off and I as an alarm engineer had the call a member of staff, talk her through checking alarm system log to find that the activation had occurred in a meeting room which (in these Covid-19 times) has not been in use. She entered the room while still on the phone to me and the bird was there in the room just looking at her, apparently not injured. I had to put all this in my job report and my service desk had a good laugh. I have had a few animal related activations over the years but they're still rare enough to be an amusing distraction. The building facilities manager later caught the creature and released it and he then saw it (or maybe a different one) flying around the chimney tops again - probably not that bright.
I saw my first one in Northamptonshire in 1980. But only a couple more in my area since then.
Interesting to hear of such early sitings of these birds.
First time I saw these in the wild was when I was on the way to work on the roofs of flats opposite peckham rye park
i was shocked a few weeks ago , when i was staying at my brothers house in sidcup, when i heard a screach and looked up and saw two of these on a roof top, looking down on me
I first saw one of these in Bishop's Park a good few years ago. My wife thought it had escaped, however, when were in the park a couple of years later, there were dozens of them flying about. They're even getting to be common in Glasgow now.
There's some in Glasgow, surprised they have survived so far north!
We have lots of them in and around Paris too, mainly in parks of course. Apparently they were released in error from somewhere near Orly Airport and I was under the impression that they had been imported from Latin or Central America. In Barcelona there is a park called the Citadel (a notorious prison during the reign of Franco that has since been demolished) and in it stand quite a few pinetrees known in French as a 'pin parasol' which house enormous numbers of them. I believe the City authorities have been obliged to start dealing with the problem. Round our way in the countryside south of Paris, they have definitely had a negative impact on local populations of smaller native species.
I see them in Hampstead all the time. About 10-20 of them flew by me flying really low up the road. They looked like a gang out to cause trouble. They’ll be wearing little hoodies soon.
We've had twenty-eight in the garden at one time before. If they're in the mood, they'll empty a bird-feeder stand in minutes. Sunflower hearts are particularly popular.
I absolutely love these birds but they are very loud.
...and that great big Betty Mavery
And she got her own aviary
At least she has the biggest parakeets I've ever seen...
-Benny Hill
Another clue to their appearance, is that they are not in any field guide books, until the 1990's. Which is odd when you consider how active Bill Oddie was back then. So it took thirty years for them to become common.
Unknown in Australia apparently, except a few in captivity.
What is called the Australian Ringnecked Parakeet is actually the larger Ringnecked Parrot.
Beside suburban Wahroonga Railway Station on Sydney's North Shore can at sunset be heard the chattering of many hundreds of Rainbow Lorikeets nesting in the adjacent trees. They are a locally native bird.
Very interesting.
Welcome in Berlin-Paris Rome…
In Stuttgart they have Yellow-Headed Amazon (Yellow-headed parrot) in Berlin-Köln & Düsseldorf it’s the Rose-Ringed Parrot 🦜 (ring-necked parakeet / Indian ringneck parrot)
They're out as far as east Berkshire, but not, to my knowledge, in the Chilterns as yet. Perhaps a bit too high for them. :-)
They were a scourge of apple orchards in East Kent in the 60s and 70s (eating the blossom, thus preventing fruit from forming), so I can remember they go back at least that far. Though my favourite untrue theory is that they were released from the set of Ridley Scott's 'Legend'. Perhaps the real question is, after being present for perhaps two centuries, why are there so many of them now?
Perhaps they are breeding? :-/
@@pulaski1 That’s just crazy talk.
Maybe over the years, they've adapted better and better. Or maybe something in the environment has changed to favour their greater numbers.
climate change maybe?
I used to go fishing on the river Thames at home park Windsor in the late 80s and there were always flocks of them in the trees back then. Since then they have spread to other parts, my brother lives in Ickenham near Uxbridge and gets several of them in his garden daily, which were not in that area in the 1980s.
Great storm of 1987 video please
thats so interesting I thought they were only local to Hither Green / Bellingham because that was the first place I saw them aha
I went to watch my team Port Vale play at Leyton Orient on 22/01/22, and a flock of them flew over the ground. I thought I'd imagined it until someone confirmed what I'd seen.
A fox also invaded the pitch during the same game.
I know that they had quite a few in Barrow in Furness (circa 2006), but they were down to the local Zoo not securing their pens very well. Same zoo later had one of its workers killed by a tiger for the same reason, iirc.
That seems incredibly cruel of them. Couldn't they have just sacked them?
@@gdclemo 😏
There's a few in Cardiff now, and I've added them to the list of birds I've seen whilst giving driving lessons.....
We have those in Cologne as well! They escaped from the local Zoo
I lived in SW London, at various places between Kew Gardens, Kingston, and Garrett Lane, Wandsworth, though mostly in West Wimbledon and Raynes Park. between 1986 and 2001, and never saw a green parakeet. :(
Royal Chelsea Hospital lots of them.
I live in Southfields and we have a tree over the road that you'd swear they are growing on.
@@digede28 I did a stand at Chelsea Flower Show around 2012 and there were loads of them in the trees there making a real racket. I liked them but locals seemed to like to complain about them. Probably because they were shitting on all the Bentlys parked all over.
Well, I guess they are there to stay now.
I have literally NEVER seen these feral parakeets and assumed they were 1 or 2 or 5 escapees in London. Shocked at the numbers... and distribution.. They've never been near us though and my mum puts out enough birdseed every month to sink a ship. Theyre just not anywhere near us I guess.. plenty of pigeons, corvids, woodpeckers, even a possible hoopoe once.. but none of these. I am amazed!
loads of them frequent my Beckenham back garden
comin over ere, nickin me bird seed
Last summer was the first time I saw them in Reigate although I understand they had been sighted before slightly further north - they make an absolute racket!
similar story in Brussels...
cheers, Willem
Thousands of the little blighters in Paris...
The ones in Kingston make a right racket! Maybe that's just a Kingston thing...
There are so many of them in Mannheim and Ludwigshafen (germany)
And Heidelberg, Wiesbaden, Brussels...
Oh. Does anybody know whether they have made it to Bavaria yet? I live there, and I have never seen any so far.
@@mquietsch6736 Im from Bavaria and I have never seen them here
related topic. When I used to live in Hampton Court there was a large population of Budgies......
Ok, @1:39 what is that fairground type ride thing in the background of the shot which can be seen through the trees?
I thought they'd escaped from a house in Twickenham and gone wild in Crane Park, thereby spreading forth...
Interesting point: sometimes invasive bird populations make good food sources for birds of prey.
Outside of small island environments most invasive species only add to local biodiversity.
These unfortunately displace other cave breeding species, and they nest really early. So they are a bit problematic.
I've seen first hand a ring necked parrot slice through metal so good luck to the predators !
Are there Parakeets in Cable Street? Oops, sorry, that's off limits! That's Taboo! Sorry about that. Polly wants a cracker!
Has there been any persistent sightings of them over a number of years starting from a specific point? That would be a good indicator of a successful colony. How are they on climate? The Little Ice Age of Dickens' memory might have killed them off. Then we've the winters of 1947 and 1963, and who know what else to stymie their success. Are they London and Home Counties only? Any in Wales? Or fighting with red squirrels in The Wirral?
They're EVERYWHERE in London.
And have been for a while
@Laz Arus London and Glasgow? Large centres of import. Perhaps they were released in other places like Liverpool or Newcastle but didn't survive long.
@Laz Arus Really? Never heard of them there - interesting.
I saw a few in my garden in Sheffield a couple of years since but that was the only time.
Could you do a video about the seagull that eats pigeons beside the Long Water in Kensington Gardens?
I have seen videos of that, but the pigeon-eaters were Pelicans.
@@ktipuss Here you go ruclips.net/video/xRPTBhmcyXY/видео.html
First saw them about 25years ago.
I suspect Jago's comment about multiple populations/sources is correct. I've certainly heard the Heathrow theory mentioned below. But have never seen any in Epping Forest or east London, whereas I have seen a flock in Ealing. Makes me think of the red kite - saw them when reintroduced to UK in the Chilterns in the 1980s, now they are all over SE England and East Anglia, probably helped by roadkill as an extra food source.
I've definitely seen them in East London - they've been living around Mudchute Farm and Millwall Park pretty consistently for at least 15 years. Outside of that little patch of green, though, I'm not really sure (although I have seen them in Lewisham and Lee before too)
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never seen a wild parakeet in Scotland.
They are all over Amsterdam
I thought these birds were native to Australia.
I have had one feeding in my yard with the sparrows for the last 2 weeks.
I live in Pa. USA...and my beautiful green parakeet is clearly lost..and I don't know how to catch him!
Please wish me luck...thank you!
They are a nuisance, loads in Enfield and Barnet
I know because my Auntie Barbara ran a pet shop in Pinner and she caught psitticosis
Revenge for the starlings?
I thought a parakeet was called a budgerigar in the U.K.
Sort of. The budgie is a specific species of parakeet (native to Australia but found as pets all over the world such as here in Britain; my Grandmother has had several over the years for instance), but when we say parakeet in general we refer to the larger birds like these.
So, how do these survive our winters?
Foothills of the Himalayas, where they are common, aren't exactly tropical....our winters are comparatively mild for them.
You can find them all over Europe in large groups. I guess this is what the European immigration policy does! 🤔
I thought that in the U.K. parakeets were called Budgerigars or something like that. Budgies?
Budgies are tiny compared to these buggers!
I hate them so much. So loud and they destroy trees on which they build nests
They were simply escaped pets due to an outbreak of psitticosis. Period
They are everywhere. Those green basterds. We have them now for a
couple of years in Haarlem NL and I don't like them because they take the
place of our regular birds and they are green and I don't like green