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    Hey Joe, where you gonna go with those parakeets on your hand?

    It was in the respected journal British Birds which had a paper looked at predation by the species I mentioned in Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens if you care to search for it. I suspect it's a pretty unusual prey item for me & the species hasn't bred there for a couple of years. Where I live in...
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    Hey Joe, where you gonna go with those parakeets on your hand?

    Certainly don't think it will happen. Also the general public on the whole wouldn't know what a Ruddy Duck was . Many people actively feed the parakeets so I think they are much more in the public arena. Very much a marmite species, like urban Foxes, people tend to either love them or loathe...
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    Hey Joe, where you gonna go with those parakeets on your hand?

    Very difficult in built-up areas so shooting is unlikely to be done where numbers are densest. Bit difficult to destroy cavities & would be very inefficient for the huge number present. Apart from some minor problems with crops they haven't been proved to have been particularly damaging to...
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    Hey Joe, where you gonna go with those parakeets on your hand?

    I have a roost of well over a thousand less than a mile from home & have had up to 16 in the garden, though most are in the birch. If I'm home I do chase them off the feeders &this has been surprisingly successful & getting far fewer visits now. One would of thought the large numbers would be...
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    Hey Joe, where you gonna go with those parakeets on your hand?

    Around many parts of London, numbers are probably around carrying capacity now. I'm not aware of any studies that show they are having negative effects on other birds. One study in Europe suggested a decline in Nuthatch. Transects in Richmond Park, where large numbers are found, also saw an...
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