Michael Palaeologus Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Saw one today near Ondine Road - little green beggar, rather loud. I am assuming it was one of those Australian Green Parrots that are settling in.Is there a flock locally? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
citizenED Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Are you sure it wasn't an ex-parrot, MP? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-44589 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macker Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 There's flocking loads of them Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-44599 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMacGabhann Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Saw one today near Ondine Road - little green beggar, rather loud. I am assuming it was one of those Australian Green Parrots that are settling in.Is there a flock locally? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-44600 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMacGabhann Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 PS - nice first post macker. Makes you sound like someone who has followed the forum for a while... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-44601 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asset Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 There's loads of them. They are ringnecked parakeets. last estimate I read was a population 10,000 in London alone. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-44616 Share on other sites More sharing options...
downsouth Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 They normally reside in Dulwich Park. I think they are green parakeets which are noisy little so and so's.http://www.worldbirdingcenter.org/bird_info/images/green_parakeet.jpg Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-44618 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 I often see them on the golf course (feel free to bring my taste in trousers into question) in Beckenham. I've also seen them in Dulwich Park and I saw 1 on Peckham Rye last week. There are shedloads in SW London. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-44635 Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrouge Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 And I thought I was going mad! No one believed that I could see parrots in my garden! Everyone thought I was making it up! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-44638 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Palaeologus Posted October 5, 2007 Author Share Posted October 5, 2007 I hear them in my flat. Thats me in the flat, not them - hence I have never actually seem them when peering out of my windows. I am opposite Goose Green and near Peckham Rye - perhaps they are spreading their little green wings? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-44675 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nero Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 There are a fair few in Peckham Rye Park, more than in Dulwich Park, in my opinion. The urban myth is that they were released in the 50s at a film studio as a practical joke and it went from there. Nero Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-44676 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Palaeologus Posted October 5, 2007 Author Share Posted October 5, 2007 There are a load in West London.If both populations spread and make first contact - will we have "Parrot Wars"? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-44682 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 My personal theory is that they are descended from a group of pigeons that nested in an old nuclear waste container that washed up on the banks of the Thames sometime in the ?80s.Their is an innocuous office in a building on Whitehall filled with filling cabinets and a messy haired man in a tweed suit who has been cataloging their activities since the early ?90s.A pair of MI5 agents engaged on another line of enquiry* have been following a trail of clues that has led them to his door. *A pensive young man (perhaps played by a young Jack Palance) and his domineering, fast talking, sexy female partner (definitely Billy Piper). Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-44695 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaman Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 Had colonies in Peckham Rye and Dulwich park for the last few years HitherGreen Cementry is packed at night dusk is like a scene from Alfred Hitchcock when they all come in to roost. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-44696 Share on other sites More sharing options...
downsouth Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 I think the largest colonies are in Richmond and Bushy Parks. They spread out from there. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-44739 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lozzyloz Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 I had no idea that when Polly and Peter escaped their cage in 1991 from our flat in Richmond that it would come to this. Should've had them neutered. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-44742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_carnell Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 Parakeets in NorwoodThe BBC has questions...and answersThey're taking over London!Someone has even put YouTube footage of them online but I don't think that sort of time-wasting behaviour should be encouraged so I'm not linking to that. :-S Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-44747 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Palaeologus Posted October 5, 2007 Author Share Posted October 5, 2007 Ref Neutered Parrots - "Nature always finds a way" as somebody in Jurassic Park. So it must be true. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-44763 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 Parrots are indeed descended from dinosaurs. I?m glad the government is involved. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-44838 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lozzyloz Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 Look, I took the liberty of examining that parrot when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-44843 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asset Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 They have been seen as far north as Glasgow according to something I read. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-44859 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Palaeologus Posted October 9, 2007 Author Share Posted October 9, 2007 I had a query re the whereabouts of the Parrot Thread.Here's the badger. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-45672 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Palaeologus Posted May 11, 2008 Author Share Posted May 11, 2008 Is it me or are there more of them this year? From where I am, they regularly commute between Goose Green and the Rye - squawking as they go. Last year I heard the occasional squawk but didnt see them - this year they can be seen flying back and forth all the time. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-101565 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamberwellOz Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 Mr CamberwellOz said that he heard they were 'set free' off the set of African Queen. Is it too early in the morning to be gullible? Or is he correct? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-101572 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckhamgatecrasher Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 "formerly the parrot"! Is it an ex-parrot? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/1614-the-parakeet-formally-the-parrot-thread-ie-dj-not-required-lounge-suit-only-because/#findComment-101573 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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