Ringneck Parakeet

Following their escape from aviaries around London, Ring-neck Parakeet's have now established large wild colonies.
The birds now number in their hundreds within these colonies and they are now spreading across the south east of England.
Ring-necks are very beautiful and make lots of noise when flying, in time they find feeding stations, bird feeders and bird tables in gardens, It's great to see such an 'exotic' bird come down to feed.
But what affect will they have on our native bird-life. I have seen no change as yet & other birds will feed along side them. Only time will tell.

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Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Bird
• Ringneck
• Wild
• Wildlife
• Bird-feeder
• Bird-table

[cagsforme]

How do they survive the cold English winters ? I love Ring Necks,I have one,he's so funny.

[christhedaddy]

Hi, glad you like the video. Our winter weather dose not worry them, they are native to northen India and live at fairly high altitude around the snow line. In this part of England ( just south of London ) we don't get many days of realy cold weather just a lot of rain but very little frost and snow. Now they have finished nesting, we see flocks of ringnecks of up to 30 at a time flying over the garden and there is one group living on Esher Common of over 1,000 birds.

good luck with your pet

[o7jimmy]

Wonderful video. *5/5* Stars.

[christhedaddy]

thanks o7jimmy, they are great fun to watch and a plesure to film.

[Strawberry7Lynn]

None in the North East of England, unfortunately!

[robby2k]

Volunteered for a study done by projectparakeet - counted 1736 parakeets toosing on Mitcham Common, near croydon

[TutorialsHD1]

why dont you catch one

[BritishNature]

Nice footage, could i possibly use some of this footage for one of my upcoming videos? (I will copywrite it to your channel in the video) Thanks

[warofthewalruses]

@christhedaddy when someone wished me luck with my pet, she died the next day.

[UniteForgetLeftRight]

@cagsforme its actually not that cold in southern great britan, i was there in january of 03 and if it wasnt for the constant drizzle rain i wouldent have needed a jacket

[ringneck2]

Cool vid. I could not figure if this was a female or a juvenile male. Very good quality video. I have these as pets. none wild in my area: northern california

[ringneck2]

Cool vid. I could not figure if this was a female or a juvenile male. Very good quality video. I have these as pets. none wild in my area: northern california.

[guarddog101]

great video, i live in bexleyheath, kent, & i see about 50-300 on a daily basis, i live right next to a forest & you can see them & hear them all day!! they are lovely, i will be buying my own next saturday!! :D

[XxGREATGAMESxX]

@cagsforme they survive the could weather becuase most of them where born in england, a women near sidcup didnt want them as pets and let them free and they have been breeding since!!