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By Liz Lee - Northampton Chronicle

WILD parakeets discovered nesting in Abington Park, in Northampton, are being hunted by rangers to be caged in the park’s aviary. Read on…

News Channel 3

SAN FRANCISCO The wild parrots of Telegraph Hill became official San Francisco residents today when city lawmakers decided to preserve the aging trees that the famous flock call home. Read on…

Northampton Chronicle by Liz Lee

SEVERAL brightly-coloured parakeets have been spotted by bird watchers living close to Abington Park in Northampton.

The ringneck parakeets, which originate from parts of Africa, Malaysia and India, have been seen in gardens and on trees in the park during the past two months. Read on…

By PETER HONINGS and VICTOR SCHILDKAMP AD

The Hague- Asian Ring-necked parakeets seem to enjoy their stay in The Hague. Hundreds of these colourful psittascenes settled in on the Korte Voorhout (red. A street where some embassies and ministries are located) and –pardon me- literal shit the civil servants on their heads. Read on…

With the rise of the Ring-necked parakeet (Psittacula krameri) in the Netherlands the concerns about this alien invader increases. Birders in general are not much interested in introduced species. Ring-necked parakeets, Mandarin ducks (Aix galericulata), Hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) are persona non grata in the Dutch avifauna and they just do not count on your bird list. Read on…

Dave Bakke Column

Del Nejmanowski is a colorful, controversial character in Carlinville. At 81 years old, Del has been on top of the heap and near the bottom as well, carrying wads of cash during the fat years and all but broke in the lean times.

Through his highs and lows, one thing has remained constant - his birds. Read on…

R. M. V. Jonker MSc. & W.P.J. Teunissen MSc.

As a follow up to “The year of the Ring-necked Parakeet” of SOVON in 2004, Araproject and Waarneming.nl organized the 2nd national Parakeet census on 16-17 December 2006. Dozens of volunteers in Rotterdam, The Hague, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Diemen, Wageningen, Rhenen, Maastricht, Deventer, Apeldoorn, Ouddorp, Hellevoetsluis, Vlieland, Groningen, Rockanje and Rijswijk helped out. Read on…

Jeroen Punt

Several parrot species live wild in the Netherlands. Some species more successful than others. The Ring-necked parakeet (Psittacula krameri) is the most successful wild parrot in the Netherlands. It is a medium sized green bird with a long tail and a red beak. In flight you can see their pointy wingtips. They are noisy and have a gregarious life style. Read on…

Araproject has landed in Medellin, Colombia. Where forestry student Carlos Vásquez is presently conducting a pilot study into the Wild parrots of the city.

The local zoo, Zoológico Santa Fe de Medellín, released several macaws in the 80ties when a local law made it illegal for the inhabitants of Colombia to own native species. Overwhelmed by the amount of macaws that were placed in their care they decided to free-range these parrots. They could come and go as they pleased. Food was available for them in aviaries. Read on…

By Will Bigham, Staff Writer dailybulletin.com

The Pomona Valley’s newest arrivals did not come quietly.

The large colony of wild parrots first appeared about three weeks ago, north Pomona and Claremont residents say. Perched high in neighborhood trees, they roost in flocks of hundreds. Read on…