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14-05-2008, 06:31 PM
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Green Parrots
Ha, this probably is a silly thread, but yea - does any one see flocks of feral parrots flying around their area? I've seen them abroad in India...
 I'm in west London and i've seen them in the past around Ealing...and around my area next to Heathrow.... more and more everyday now flying around in flocks of 12+ coming from the park behind my house. I really think they escaped from air cargo or something at some point in the past. lol. Today they woke me up with their racket. I hope im not going mad. |
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14-05-2008, 06:56 PM
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Re: Green Parrots
i wasn't sure if this was a legpull at the time but...
Originally Posted by IBM
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14-05-2008, 07:06 PM
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Re: Green Parrots
There are suprisingly quiet a few about, RSPB thinks around 30,000 in London.
BBC NEWS | Magazine | How do parakeets survive in the UK? Theres quiet a few around the wildfowl and wetlands trust place in Barnes 
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14-05-2008, 07:19 PM
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Re: Green Parrots
Originally Posted by Flibb
hmm damn! that's quite a lot. i tried to film some in the park today
  nicer to watch then pigeons i guess.
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14-05-2008, 08:15 PM
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Re: Green Parrots
Originally Posted by sammyc
Good God, doesn't anyone take me seriously?
There's thousands of them in Hyde Park alone....it's one of the few things that I absolutely love about London....    
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14-05-2008, 08:21 PM
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Re: Green Parrots
i have a penguin living in my garden.. its fibreglass though.. also 3 ducks, 4 sparrows, 2 robins and about 30 pigeons.
The last time I saw a parrot was about 10 years ago, an escaped eagle ate it though. not seen any parrots since. just had a look in a local forum, and there was an african grey parrot flying around recently, pity it didn't land in my garden, would've given the ducks something else to attack. |
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14-05-2008, 09:02 PM
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Re: Green Parrots
Yep, read an article about it last year or the year before, then about a week later saw a big flock of them flying (and squawking loudly) over my mum's garden in Catford.
Haven't seen any since though. |
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14-05-2008, 09:18 PM
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Re: Green Parrots
Originally Posted by IBM
nothing personal, can't be too careful on this site... find it best to distrust everyone, on account of being gullible...
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14-05-2008, 09:52 PM
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Re: Green Parrots
Originally Posted by sammyc
paranoia.. probably caused by deficiency of essential nutrients
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14-05-2008, 10:34 PM
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Re: Green Parrots
BBC NEWS | Education | Wild parrots settle in suburbs
they recon theres a good 20,000 of em now wild in the uk.. randy buggers |
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14-05-2008, 10:53 PM
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Re: Green Parrots
Originally Posted by schmunk
That's because they're all on holiday in London... duh!
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