Britain's only naturalised parrot, the ring-necked parakeet, Psittacula krameri, has firmly established itself in parts of the country. An exotic-looking bird, with a green body, red beak and a pink ...

Falcons in the capital have turned to eating parakeets after pigeons fled London during lockdown, a study has found. Peregrine falcons turned to starlings and parakeets after pigeons left London in ...

London’s peregrine falcons switched from eating pigeons to parakeets during the first covid-19 lockdown in 2020, as urban birds felt the impact of humans staying at home. Peregrine falcons (Falco ...

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 ...

Amateur wildlife photographers have been flocking to a north Belfast park to spot a tropical new arrival. Bedecked with emerald green feathers and a rose-red beak, the ring-neck parakeets have become ...

A long-lived urban legend about the origins of feral parakeets in the British Isles has finally been disproven by new research from Goldsmiths and Queen Mary universities. The BBC reported that the ...