I parrocchetti invasivi ora “inarrestabili” poiché la dimensione della popolazione raddoppia in dieci anni
https://www.itv.com/news/2025-05-30/invasive-parakeets-now-unstoppable-as-population-size-doubles-in-ten-years
di BestButtons
I parrocchetti invasivi ora “inarrestabili” poiché la dimensione della popolazione raddoppia in dieci anni
https://www.itv.com/news/2025-05-30/invasive-parakeets-now-unstoppable-as-population-size-doubles-in-ten-years
di BestButtons
16 commenti
Should we tell Nigel or Reform? They’ll sort this out.
I bow down to our unstoppable parakeet overlords. All hail your squawky might, please accept my offering of crackers.
Put a bounty on them, cheap and they’ll all be gone in weeks.
edit: for those comparing it to the snakes in India, you just make it time limited. A six month free for all then no more bounty, that cuts out the breeders.
I know they’re invasive but are they detrimental to native flora and fauna?
This whole idea of not dealing with non-native species until we are sure they become invasive is just so short sighted. By the time we are sure they become invasive, its way too late. They need dealing with at a much earlier stage or jt just becomes a running battle throwing huge amounts of resources at them just to keep the numbers in check.
The article seems to have missed that this isn’t just happening in the UK, so the explanation that it’s due to them escaping from a zoo or movie set doesn’t make much sense. I’ve seen flocks of these things in Oslo, Amsterdam and Frankfurt, for example. Whatever their origin is, it’s clearly not Britain-specific.
I reckon I could stop a few.
Not sure how many it would take to overpower me
These guys steal food and nesting sites from a number of native UK birds, including my favourite: the nuthatch. It’s such a shame.
They are difficult to deal with as they are very skittish and don’t land on the ground very often, preferring the tops of tall trees.
They are loud fockers as well.
I’ve been slowly noticing them get lower and lower in the south east. But also have been noticing the Red Kites get further and further along from the west. Problem could solve itself.
I really like these birds but they are very noisy. You can hear them a mile off
Will they fight pigeons?
Do they shit less than pigeons?
It’s fine we just need another more invasive species to take over from them. Maybe griffins?
I remember reading somewhere that unlike most invasive species the predatory birds are adapting to eat them.
Had them at the back of our last house in Kent they are bloody noisy but pretty but bloody noisy!
I do always think there’s this ongoing bias on ecosystem science to preserve the existing system rather than accept change as part of the ecosystem. Surely the parakeet is winning the evolutionary race?