Female Ring-necked Parakeet - Psittacula krameri
A colourful and distinctive long-tailed bird with a loud call. This parakeet's natural range is in Asia and Africa and now established in Britain with the suburban western fringes of London being the stronghold. There are several theories of how these birds got to be here in the UK and one being that the music legend Jimi Hendrix while living in London released some, more likely he just released great rock music instead of Ring-Necked Parakeets. The most probable explanation is that these were kept as pets and escaped out in to the wild where they gradually became naturalised in the wild and helped by our warmer winters. This birds can also be known as the Rose-Ringed Parakeet and its is the male that has the thin black and pink collar and a black throat, while the female is mainly all green.
Female Ring-necked Parakeet - Psittacula krameri
A colourful and distinctive long-tailed bird with a loud call. This parakeet's natural range is in Asia and Africa and now established in Britain with the suburban western fringes of London being the stronghold. There are several theories of how these birds got to be here in the UK and one being that the music legend Jimi Hendrix while living in London released some, more likely he just released great rock music instead of Ring-Necked Parakeets. The most probable explanation is that these were kept as pets and escaped out in to the wild where they gradually became naturalised in the wild and helped by our warmer winters. This birds can also be known as the Rose-Ringed Parakeet and its is the male that has the thin black and pink collar and a black throat, while the female is mainly all green.