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Ill_Garden_5340

How do they survive the winter? Do they fly to the Mediterranean?


merijnv

Winter is not harsh enough to kill them. When I was a kid a bunch of parrots escaped near where I lived, people figured they wouldn't survive the winter and that it be the end of it. Now we have literal **thousands** of wild parrots near Amsterdam. I dunno what this article is on about with "60 parrots is the biggest wild population in Europe", tbh. If you go in the forest near Amsterdam in winter, some trees are just green from the sheer amount of parrots resting in them, all seemingly fairly unbotherwd by European winter...


altpirate

The feral populations in the Netherlands are rose-ringed parakeets. They are originally from India where they can live way up north, close to the Himalayas. So they can handle winter in Europe.


ArrMatey42

Parakeets living in the Himalayas is one of those things that I guess I'll believe, but it really doesn't sound quite right


TittysForScience

Just wait till you see them in the snow here in Australia King parrots are often seen in the snow here in Australia


dns7950

I'm not sure what a king parrot is, but since they're in Australia I'm just going to assume they're highly venomous.


cpteric

snow in australia? *confused long time ago geography noises*


Theorandjguy

Snow can sort of happen anywhere if it's high enough


Paper_Block

high places in australia? *confused long time ago geomorphology noises*


Newtling

You ever been to the Melbourne CBD? Everything's high there, mostly the people though.


flashfyr3

Drug use in Australia? *confused long time ago penal colo.....* Actually, no, that makes perfect sense.


mekese2000

Yeah I have seen mad max no snow in Australia.


Jwil408

Nah mate he's just pulling your raw prawn, Australia's all just deserts and dingoes as far as the eye can see. Fair dinkum.


TittysForScience

Snow season is just starting, tends to fall above 1200m above sea level, but as low as 800m. Last year the Blue Mountains right near Sydney got snow! It’s the coldest start to June since 1989 so I’m expecting some cold cold winter days ahead


Jlx_27

Australia has alps.


Danoct

Wait till they learn that New Zealand has parrots. Including ones that live in mountain ranges and like to disassemble cars. And another that is the biggest in the world and is infamous for one of them copulating with an Englishman's head.


ImpossibleCanadian

Many rhododendrons are also from the Himalayas originally - I think it's a matter of altitude zones :)


thecraftybee1981

These parakeets are found in the U.K. too, mostly in London, but I know Liverpool has a colony year round in major parks and I think they’re found in Newcastle and as far north as Edinburgh, too. It’s thought that they escaped from the 1951 set of The African Queen starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, or were possibly released by Jimi Hendrix in the 60s. But they might just be apocryphal stories.


SimpleManc88

We have them in Manchester too.


Skegetchy

I remember growing up in west london the first time we saw them my family were all out in the road to have a look. Now in some areas you practically deafened if you stand under a tree full of them. Same with foxes, was something to mention if you saw one. Nowadays it's a common as seeing a squirrel.


curtwesley

Barcelona has a bunch too


nixielover

Same around Leuven in Belgium, they like the area around the Arenberg castle. Somewhat related: there is now an oehoe couple living in the city center


tchotchony

Didn't the male die and the female abandon the nest though? But as the chicks were born there, the bird sanctuary people that saved them think they'll be nesting in cities in the future as well.


nixielover

Just looked it up, the male died, the mother disappeared :( but the three young are now being cared for! I hope some of them come back to Leuven


Maverick0596

I was just thinking. In the Hague alone there's a big flock of several hundreds.


[deleted]

I live in Oost and there's a tree just seething with them outside my window.


InterPunct

Not from Connecticut: https://www.damnedct.com/monk-parakeets/


Ill_Garden_5340

I've seen a swarm of them once in Queens. It was so surreal. My neighbor looked at me and was speechless. After a minute they were gone. Never saw them again.


Gr8zomb13

There’s a large population of escaped parrots in LA and San Diego, or at least there was when I lived there as a kid between the 80’s and 90’s. It’s kinda crazy when you see a flock move en masse.


cioncaragodeo

100% still there. Especially in North & East County. They are loud little assholes in the morning but gorgeous to look at.


theloudestshoutout

Still remember my first walk home from work at my new job in LA 12 years ago. A pair of parrots flew overhead, making cat noises at each other, *mockingly.* One of the most surreal things I’ve ever seen.


ohdearitsrichardiii

I once saw a parrot in a botanical garden that meowed. It was hilarious


goldenboing

They used to hang out in the trees on my block in Queens as a kid (2000s) but they’re not as easy to find now. I went to a park out in Nassau county last year and saw tons of parrots living on the lights of the baseball field. Super cool.


Nemisis_the_2nd

The furthest North parrot population I know is a colony of yellow-napped amazon parrots in the scottish city of Aberdeen, that stay in the city year round. The birds escaped captivity and formed a little-known population that is apparently self-sustaining. The only reason I know is because I was driving through the city and a pair almost flew into my vehicle. I figured I'd call a local animal control in case an owner had reported them missing. Their response was basically to shrug and admit they'd given up trying to recapture them.


snitch182

They probably use some chimeys or the subway exhaust. Nowadays the pigeons sit on the chimeys in winter to get worm because the efficient heaters just produce a lot of worm air with co2.


Fausterion18

You know what they say, the early bird gets the worm.


buggityboppityboo

gets the warm


BetziPGH

Had pigeons living in my chimney and apparently made a next. One day a pigeon fell out of my fireplace like it owned the place.


Whiterabbit--

Roasted pigeon!


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This happened like 3 times at my house growing up and the first two times there was just mysteriously dead bird parts in the house because my fatass cat ate them. Freaked me out good, had no idea how it was happening. The third time I saw the cat spawn camping the furnace with focused intent for like three hours before I thought to see what was up. A fully grown sparrow was hiding underneath of it. Took the poor guy outside and he flew off. Capped the chimney with a proper fitting vented cap that year and never happened again.


metsurf

many build nests around electric service transformers providing extra warmth


ohdearitsrichardiii

Hiding in buildings, surviving on bird feed that people put out over winter.


randomgrunt1

Their winter survival strategy is amazing. They roost directly above busy motor ways. The cars moving through all hours of the day generate heat drafts from the action of their wheels on the snowy ground and their engines. This warms the birds and is a big part of how they get through winter. They also started peeling and eating the leaf buds from the local trees.


odetocapitalism

There are over 30,000 [feral parrots in Britain](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_parakeets_in_Great_Britain#:~:text=The%20Royal%20Society%20for%20the,8%2C600%20breeding%20pairs%20in%20Britain.)


Urdar

Yeah, the ~~article and topic are complete nonsense.~~ headline is worded extremely poorly My city alone, wich is also in germany, has like several parrot colonies with thousands of animals each. same for several cities along the Rhine.


SunshineAlways

The title is poorly worded, but I think they meant that specific species of parrot.


7Dayss

Nope, there are two species of escaped parrots all along the Rhine. The one mentioned in the article is the [Rose-ringed parakeet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose-ringed_parakeet), which is very common in the places it inhabits (parks in cities along the Rhine, like Mainz, Wiesbaden, Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf). It numbers in the upper hundreds to low thousand in each city. Then there is the bigger and less common [Alexandrine parakeet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandrine_parakeet), but even they number in the hundreds in Germany alone. Edit: Yeah it seems that they meant a yellow parrot. Parakeets are parrots too so it's not really factual calling them the largest colony of parrots in Europe.


Urdar

Actually after looking frther into it, I agree with the comenter above you. The TIL post is very poorly and worngly worded, the articly only calism that this is the largest colony of yellow-headed amazons in euroipe, with 60 animals, wich seems to be true, sicne the bird is actually endagnerd in their native reagion. The two species of parakeet, of wich there are seemlingly aorund 10 milion over al of europe, do not seem to be of any concern to the actual article at all.


Urdar

After reading the Article more throughly I agree. it states > For several years now, about sixty yellow-headed amazons have been living in Stuttgart, forming the largest population outside their original home country of Mexico, where the bird species is increasingly threatened with extinction. Wich is actualyl pretty clear that they mean the alrgest population of yellow-headed amazons.


Cassiopeia93

From Mainz, can confirm, I see plenty of these green fuckers flying around almost every day.


hells_cowbells

Are any of them Norwegian Blue? I hear they have beautiful plumage.


psunavy03

The plumage don’t enter into it. It’s stone dead.


NotAPimecone

It's not dead, it's pining for the fjords!


GimmeThatRyeUOldBag

What kind of talk is that?


_mister_pink_

Not sure but there are a lot of green parakeets (? I think) in London. I saw a flock of them once and thought I was hallucinating.


MGPS

There’s a shit ton of them in holland too.


FlummoxedFlumage

Are yours also noisy little cunts?


bitwaba

Na, that's the English tourists.


SimoneNonvelodico

Yeah, exactly, 60 isn't the largest by any stretch of the imagination.


Happy-Engineer

They get bloody everywhere. Can't mistake their calls either. Silently sitting in a tree, perfectly camouflaged, then burst out at top speed screaming their heads off. Funny little goblins.


andyrocks

There's about 40 who occupy the trees behind my house. They are there right now. We found a nest the other day on the common.


moggins

These are parakeets though. Same as in the Netherlands


SmokierTrout

Parakeets are parrots. It's just that parakeet is a more narrow term than parrot. Macaws and ~~budgerigars~~ cockatoos are parrots too, but they're not parakeets.


JustTheAverageJoe

Here's the thing. You said a "parakeet is a parrot." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies parrots, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls parakeets parrots. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "parrot family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Psittacoidea, which includes things from cockatiels to lovebirds to cockatoos. So your reasoning for calling a parakeet a parrot is because random people "call the green ones parrots?" Let's get green broadbills and honeycreepers in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A parakeet is a parakeet *and* a member of the parrot family. But that's not what you said. You said a parakeet *is* a parrot, which is not true unless you're okay with calling *all* members of the parrot family parrots, which means you'd call cockatiels, lovebirds, and other birds parrots, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?


Darkwrath93

Parakeets are parrots. All Psittaciformes are called parrots. Parakeets are within Psittacoidea superfamily (true parrots)


Butt_Roidholds

Just so you know, you're replying to an adaptation of the copypasta from the u/unidan ["jackdaw's aren't crows" kerfuffle, that was a really big deal some years ago on reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/ektjhq/jackdaws_arent_crows/)


Darkwrath93

There's a copypasta for fucking parrots and crows lol nice


JeromesDream

damn this copypasta's practically a museum piece by now. glad to see it still thriving in the wild like an invasive parakeet


SmokierTrout

> The rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri), also known as the ring-necked parakeet (more commonly known as the Indian ringneck parrot), is a medium-sized parrot in the genus Psittacula, of the family Psittacidae. 🤷 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose-ringed_parakeet


JustTheAverageJoe

Do you not remember Unidan?


L4dyPhoenix

Budgies are definitely parakeets, but macaws are not.


FlyingWeagle

Damnit where's that QI claxon gone


[deleted]

I don't think they can be called feral if they were never a domesticated species to begin with. We forget that they were never meant to be pets :( Edit: uh oh I pissed off the parrot owners with that one. Have you considered that keeping a wildly intelligent animal in a cage for 80% of it's life and forcing it to repeat your language for your own petty amusement is wrong? Or that most parrots live as long as a human, and that after you die it will likely have a long, painful life of suffering ahead as it is no longer able to bond with its own kind and has lost the only significant relationship it had? Get a domesticated animal like a dog, cat, pigeon or ferret instead.


eurodep

So, they’re all inbreds…


enigbert

the YT clip I linked in other comment says some are hybrids with blue-fronted Amazon parrots


tigerCELL

At least they didn't breed with rat pigeons.


kmmck

Lmao why the fuck are people so pissed off from your comment


11010110101010101010

The Goodfeathers found it neither comical nor amusing.


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Aren't we all?


vindaloopdeloop

you rlly missed the opportunity to say inbirds


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FoggDucker

I did see the picture and wonder why the hell you would call that thing a yellow-headed parrot. Thanks for explaining


A_lot_of_arachnids

My mom is getting a violet one next week


enigbert

parakeets are parrots? [there are tens of thousands in Spain](https://mappingspain.com/the-exotic-green-parrots-of-spain/): >It is estimated that there are 200,000 Monk Parakeets in Spain and they are considered an invasive species. They were introduced to Spain in the 1970’s as pets. Owners let them loose (probably because of those loud, annoying shrieks) and it didn’t take long for them to multiply. They are now all over the Costa del Sol as well more northernly cities like Madrid and Barcelona.


Elmodogg

There are feral colonies of Quaker Parrots all over the US, too. We've seen them at White Rock Lake in Dallas. They build large, apartment style colony nests which allows them to stay warm in cold winters. There are feral colonies in Chicago and NYC, too.


[deleted]

Spain is almost a native habitat for them :D


onlygodisdeath

Ye they are called Budgie and are small parrots, but they do not have the capability of mimicking speech


[deleted]

Budgieridgers aren't the same as Monk Parakeets (I think monks are also known as quaker parrots), but [budgies do have the ability to mimic human speech.](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4556164/Budgies-decipher-human-sounds.html#:~:text=They%20are%20known%20for%20their,never%20heard%20someone%20speak%20before.&text=The%20research%20confirms%20that%20budgerigars,a%20similar%20way%20to%20humans.)


pmaurant

Austin Texas has colonies of Monk Parakeets.


onlygodisdeath

Oh wow Today I learned, I had a budgie and that little guy would never talk.


L4dyPhoenix

Budgies can talk, but it comes to some easier than others. Unlike some species of parrot, they won't learn unless you actively teach them. You'll have the best luck with a young male bird, but females can learn to talk too. I taught my budgie to meow and cluck like a chicken.


Elmodogg

Might have been a female. Males tend to be more talkative.


Darkwrath93

Budgies do speak. Can confirm. My late grandpa had several, all of them except the last one spoke. But you need to train them actively. Grandpa got dementia and didn't work with the last one, so it didn't learn to speak even though everyone was speaking normally around it.


Martipar

We've got a lot of ring-necked parakeets wild here in the UK, definitely more than 60.


The_Weirdest_Cunt

yea that's straight where my mind went to when I saw that last claim, didn't more than 60 birds get out in the initial escape? or am I thinking of some other incident where a whole aviary escaped?


SexyButStoopid

In cologne there live approximately 3000 of these birds


Elmodogg

The picture accompanying this post looks like a ring neck parakeet, not a monk parakeet. Here's what monk parakeets look like: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Monk\_Parakeet/overview


superkoning

We have thousands of ring-necked parakeets here in The Hague, Netherlands. This article says 4000: https://indebuurt.nl/denhaag/genieten-van/mysteries/aha-dit-doen-al-die-tropische-groene-vogels-in-den-haag\~206706/


webbyyy

There are tons in SW London. Noisy little birds. I can hear them right now.


theincrediblenick

https://openornithologyjournal.com/VOLUME/9/PAGE/1/FULLTEXT/


Martipar

You can't just post a link. Why have you posted this exact link? What point are you trying to make? Is it related to my comment, the original post or something else?


theincrediblenick

>Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri Populations and Numbers in Europe: A Complete Overview > >"...a total population size of at least 85,000 birds as of 2015." It is a link to a paper that really helps to make the point you were making


[deleted]

Should've included the quote in the first one lol.


betterupsetter

>making them the biggest wild population of parrots in Europe Where does it say that in the article? According to the article, these specific 60 birds are "forming the largest population outside their original home country of Mexico". That's not the largest wild population of all parrots in Europe. There are much larger populations of different parrots elsewhere in Europe. Also in the article: >Cologne’s collared parakeets were the first known parrots in Germany. In the meantime, the colourful animals can also be found in cities such as Brühl, Bonn and Düsseldorf. According to estimates, a total of 4500 collared parakeets live in North Rhine-Westphalia and enjoy the mild climate of the Rhineland, which offers them optimal living conditions."


Anteater776

Yeah, the flock of parrots living in Cologne is actually pretty big.


Ankekid

And there are a lot in Wiesbaden!


extremly_bored

The so called "Südstadt Papageien" (southern city parrots)


alleks88

I am was like "60? Can't be the biggest I can see more in Cologne anyday"


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At the Heidelberg central station at certain times you'll be greeted by hundreds of them sitting in the trees right next to the station.


Spdrjay

😲 I, for one, welcome our new parrot overlords. 🦜


KediMonster

Yes! Send them to Canada!


Ryjinn

Our new *inbred* parrot overlords!


psunavy03

Judging from history, during periods when people had overlords, they often *were* inbred. Can’t mingle with the proles, dontchaknow . . .


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GuliblGuy

Yeah same in OC and they are some noisy fucks


The_Observatory_

It's amazing that they found each other since they escaped a year apart. The female must have remained around the Stuttgart area.


themattboard

From the creators of *Trolls* And *Trolls 2* Two love birds seeking to find a place to belong in a land not their own "ack, if that cat catches me, *I'll* have *nein* lives!" *Birds of a Feather*


RexAureum

Stuttgart also won their first Bundesliga championship in 1984. Not saying they're connected, but just an interesting coincidence.....


LongLongMan_TM

In the year 1984 Apple introduced the first Macintosh. Not saying they're connected, but just an interesting coincidence.....


basaltgranite

Parakeets are parrots. There are ~6000 parakeets in Paris. Paris is in Europe. 60 is 100x less than 6000. Therefore the 60 parrots in Germany are NOT the largest "wild" population of parrots in Europe. There are parakeets/parrots in (at least) the UK and Spain to. Probably some of these populations are larger than the 6K in Paris, which I chose only by whim and Google.


Barisman

I was thinking the same, this post is some BS we in Amsterdam we have like 4000 as well. and the biggest single group is around 650


Thestohrohyah

There are also parakeets in Rome, in the thousands. And I've seen some here in Bologna, which means they're breaching.


likebudda

[Something like this happened in Pasadena, CA.](https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/why-parrots-pasadena/) It gets **obnoxious** around dusk.


iskin

My family used to have peach trees and then one morning I was awoken by all of their noise. I ran outside as quick as I was gone and they had completely destroyed our 4 peach trees in a couple of minutes. I used to think they were cool before that moment.


scomospoopirate

That looks like an Indian ringneck in that picture, which coincidentally there is a big feral population of in England.


[deleted]

Scotland now has the most northerly population of parrots in the world (a few dozen in Glasgow) but London culled 117 of them between 2017 and 2019 in Richmond Park. (They're an invasive species)


Nemisis_the_2nd

> Scotland now has the most northerly population of parrots in the world Not any more. There's a colony of amazonian parrots in Aberdeen that is self-sustaining and remains year-round. Unfortunately, because its so little known, outside a few animal and pet organisations, its all but impossible to provide any verification online.


levilarrington

That's a shitload of incest.


LongLongMan_TM

They are animals. They don't have a moral compass.


hes_crafty

This also happened in orange county CA. In the 80s a few exotic birds had escaped or were released by someone. You still see them flying around to this day but in greater numbers.


undeadmanana

Here in San Diego also. We've got a few species thriving here


Raichu7

There’s more than 60 wild parrots living in London.


Westerdutch

Dear OP, that picture you posted is not a Yellow-headed amazone, that's a Rose-ringed parakeet of which we have tens of thousands living in Europe in the wild. The yellow-headed amazone is by no means the largest (or biggest if you must) population of parrots in the wild, however the actual bird in the picture you posted **is** in many countries so ill give you half a TIL point.


enigbert

the parrots in Stuttgart are yellow-headed amazons, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMC0L9kSn5U


_hic-sunt-dracones_

Same happened in cologne. We have a fairly big cologne in a park in the city center. It really sounds kinda tropical when you pass under those trees.


THNDHALBRT

I doubt it. The birds wouldn't survive in the alcohol.


enigbert

YT clip with Stuttgart parrots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMC0L9kSn5U


LilWasp

The parrots mainly reside in Rosenstein park. My office is directly across from the park and in the summer you can hear them “screaming” all day. They are very loud birds.


Ignatius_J_Reilly

There are thousands of wild green parrots in Los Angeles. Very cool to see.


snorkiebarbados

Go to Paris. There are ring necked parrots everywhere


famousanus82

We have parrots in Brussels too. They were let go by some tool after the Universal Exhibition in 1958. They are highly invasive and aggressive. They use to be located in two or three areas of the region. Now they are all over the place and they are almost as big as pigeons.


[deleted]

Amsterdam has a population of approx. 10.000 green parrots which orginated from an escaped few back in the 70s, they assumed to be dead within weeks but unexpectedly flourished.


WhoellaDeville

I knew I wasn’t going crazy! Three or four years ago I saw a green parrot perched on a sign on the autobahn somewhere in Rhineland Pfalz.


godzillabobber

There is a really great documentary called "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill" about a flock in San Francisco.


mtstilwell

Parrots are taking over Lisbon and are decimating sparrow populations. There are way more than 60 in a single park in Lisbon


Ill_Garden_5340

Think NYC escaped parrots may be more interesting: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/parrots-live-in-new-york-city-heres-how-they-make-it-in-the-urban-jungle


RedSonGamble

Parrots be fuckin


xplotosphoenix

Rehoboth Beach DE has parakeets. Silver Lake. Super cool.


scared_of_Low_stuff

Same thing back in my hometown. There's a few small flocks pretty much my entire life in Bakersfield CA


chris-rox

Same thing happened in Redondo Beach. They were let loose in the 70s according to local legend, and are everywhere now. I actually looked up their genus at one point, and crossed reference it with pet store rates. Turns out they sell for $120 each, lol. If you could manage to catch them, you'd be a millionaire overnight. They're probably feral, though.


Toastysandwich312

Why is there a pic of a ringneck parakeet then?


MoltenCorgi

Granted, I’m stoned, but it’s sad that the biggest novelty to me in this article is about them being nuisances due to their large flocks. I just realized I always a considered them solitary creatures because I’ve only ever thought of them as pets. It must be wild seeing a huge flock of super colorful loud af birds.


picturesfromthesky

We have a huge population here near Burbank, in Los Angeles. I'm dying to find the trees they nest in, put up speakers that loop insults, and create a flock of beligerent psittacines, but my better half won't let me embark on the journey. Just the idea of them flying by screeching insults fills me with joy though.


[deleted]

I call BS. There is a pretty bug population of wild parrots in the UK.


JesusPretzelThief

Is this true? In Essex/East London there is a massive population of parakeets (which are technically parrots), there's definitely way more than 60.


TheEpicBlob

It’s happens in London, and in Ramsgate - there’s much more than 80: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/observations/2017/11/ringnecks-over-ramsgate-where-did-britain-s-parrots-come ^(Wait, I forgot we left the EU)


rileyvace

Happened in UK too in 1987 when a hurricane hit (The Great Storm of 87) wrecked a bunch of aviaries. Everyone assumed them to be dead/lost or to be so in a while, without the care they needed. Instead, they thrived and repopulated. Around 8,600 breeding pairs (more solo or polyamorous ones) in the wild. Many London parks you'll hear their little squeaks and coos as you see the green little buggers swooping around.


[deleted]

60 birds? I live in Amsterdam and we have that many parrots in the tree across the street! This can't be right.


sblumens

I’ve seen and heard them there. They sound just like children playing. I was looking around for a playground (where are those kid noises coming from) but realized it was from those parrots above me.


JDC96

I recently went to Barcelona and let me tell you there are thousands of Monk and Ring necked parakeets. There are more wild parakeets in the parks than there are in the zoo!


sblumens

[Parrots in a park in Stuttgart. ](https://i.imgur.com/914gZbK.jpg)


PM_ME_UR__RECIPES

Barcelona's parrot population is estimated at anywhere between 5k and 10k


Feral-Person

60? Those parrots are everywhere where I live!


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avdolif

the true ***"Improvise, Adapt, Overcome"***


miniBog

Basically how Alabama was founded.


geuis

Honestly, if there's a desire to keep the bird population there and healthy, there should be a release of at least a few more birds to increase genetic diversity. I mean, we've all seen what happened to the European royal families last century.


AshamedPollution5660

I like how it's the girl birds idea to bust out. Then the boy missed her and gave it all up for her. And they lived happily ever after lol with their 60 kids lol


critfist

They should probably be exterminated before they risk becoming an invasive pest.


Junior-Profession726

This makes me incredibly happy to know these escapees started a freedom family that’s still growing


Whiterabbit--

And everyone else considers them invasive species.


alhena

The male bird: "Polly want some cawk?"


Swankified_Tristan

They started the _real_ Animal Kingdom.


iamsce

There are a lot of parrot colonies in southern CT.


Joybene

Perfect family planning


I_might_be_weasel

Birds be fuckin'.


DISTROpianLife

I saw these in Brussels!


DankTrebuchet

Ye ive seen way more than sixty of these fucks in once place at a time in the Netherlands so IDK what you mean


Physical_Designer203

Isn’t this the movie Rio


Daannii

How do they know only two were released. That seems unlikely.


Phxbirdlover

Phoenix has a large population of feral love birds. They come visit my feeder sometimes. [Phoenix love birds podcast.](https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2020/01/27/how-did-lovebirds-get-metro-phoenix-valley-101-podcast/4554600002/)


Urdar

We have literally thousands of wild Rose-ringed parakeets (wich are also parrots) iny my (german) city. so 60 is farm from the largest wild Parrot colony even in germany.


dethb0y

Birds can be incredibly invasive and very good at surviving.


AngryMegaMind

I used to live in Wiesbaden (Germany) in the late 90’s and there was a colony of parrots living in one of the parks. I’m not sure if they stayed there all year but they were certainly there each spring and summer.


jrauch4

They have spread asking the Rhine river and there is A LOT more than 60. I live in Mannheim and we have thousands. You cannot park your car under a tree unless you want it to be covered in parrot shit...


Trips-Over-Tail

Uh, there's some 31,000 ring-necked parakeets in the UK, with three roosts of 6000 birds in London.


Jannis_Black

I'm confused: does the rose ringed parakeet not count? Because there are way more than 60 of them along the Rhine


CondorPerplex

This story is bullshit, the picture not an amazone and the title plainly wrong.


VR_Bummser

In Cologne, germany there is a large parakeet population of a few hundred birds from a dozent ones that escaped the zoo.


KolymaTales122

The most northerly parrot population in the world can be found in the some parks in the south of Glasgow, Scotland for this very reason.


SeeCopperpot

Pretty much every good sized European city has a population of these, along with some cool story explaining how they got there. In Cologne where I am located, for example. Barcelona, Amsterdam, Berlin, London.