Parakeet ID, UK (1 Viewer)

Phantom Birder said:

could be a cockatiel
they get out of their cages quite often

PB

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Berksbirds said:

Just thought I'd post an interesting sighting from May 23rd. (sorry for the delay but my modem has crashed!)

I was standing next to the Loddon scanning Lea Farm Pit when I noticed a distant mobbing flock of corvids some 1/4 to 1/2 mile away, probably Lodge Road area. Through bins, they looked to be mobbing what at first glance resembled a cuckoo, but through a telescope, obviously wasn't. I presumed the bird to be an escape, possibly a cockatiel sp., but it was very distant. The only plumage details I could note was an obvious broad white bar on each upper wing in the greater covert area, otherwise the bird just looked dark greyish. It had sharp pointed wings like a cuckoo, but an extremely long, thin tail, certainly longer than cuckoo, possibly broader at the tip. The head did not appear to be large, but it was distant. The flight was extremely quick and quite acrobatic in its avoidance of the mob of corvids, which were giving it some grief. I watched it dive below the treeline and back up again several times before it disppeared completely. I would estimate its size to be similar to R N Parakeet.

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