Ring necked parakeets

Thanks👍🏻, I sooooo need to get out now👍🏻😊. I for one welcome their colourful addition👏🏻👏🏻. If they don’t belong then Darwin’s Law will sort it. That’s not going to happen I found out they’ve been here for over 100 years😱

Good resource thanks👍🏻

I see you have some up your way too. 

None that I’ve either seen nor heard but I’ll be across to Bolton Abbey looking out for them as soon as the rules allow that’s for sure👍🏻

I think we need to look at the source of this opinion as it dosn't match that of the RSPCB. Bit like those game magazines writing about the management of pheasants and other introduced game birds not having an effect on native wildlife. Not to mention habitat management and the mass spread of toxic lead shot across tracts of land. 

How strange-Its not us farmers to be blamed for the none native introductions even though they create so much damage to other indigenous animals and habitats.

What about Grey sqirrels

"We’ve lost half our farmland birds in the past 50 years, 40% of all species have declined in number and many of our rivers are in a shocking state."

It's a bit unfair to blame all farmers for the damage caused when maintaining shooting estates or adopting habitat destroying practises. It's a minority of land owners perpetuating this vandalism. There are many farmers doing their best to maintain a living whilst restoring natural habitats. We should not tar all!

They are extremely noisy in west London when you are trying to have a peaceful evening before bed on a campsite in the Walton on Thames and Chertsey areas.

If you have never seen a parakeet in the wild before I have no doubt one could find them attractive, however, after a while they are a nuisance and to my way of thinking should be shot on sight!

Had read an article quoting Sir Ian Botham's maiden speech to Parliament's upper house. Knew it would be controversial,  the lets protect our native species against the it looks pretty so it must be harmless brigade. We've managed to blame farmers for the decline in small birds when Wild Justice have managed to protect the predators that game keepers and others want to reduce to protect red list birds.  Dont ever assume the RSPB knows best, for instance they would not control vermin on their reserves and have video of a fox eating young hen harriers, they had a colony of birds wiped out by predators. Someone said the RSPB should have an ostrich not a curlew as their logo.