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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.

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?

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).

Parakeets in Norwood


The BBC has questions...and answers


They'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

  • 7 months later...

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.

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