Green parakeets

[BrandNewGuy]

There's plenty of evidence that smaller birds are getting used to parakeets and don't see them as a threat. In fact, the perceived threat comes from them having curved beaks ? which most birds will see initially as meaning a potentially dangerous bird of prey.

[bcam]

Soon to be in Fitzgeraldo's garden!

ianr Wrote:

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> > Perfect solution attached. This should cut out

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> > noise with the living world.

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> What and where is this?

[Sue]

exdulwicher Wrote:

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> Only with other robins. They're fine sharing

> feeders with tits, nuthatches, woodpeckers,

> finches etc.

Yes, it was the reference to "lots of robins" in the post above mine that I was referring to.

I suspect it is the same robin visiting many times :)

[Sue]

Just a suggestion to the OP, but you can buy mock-ups of birds of prey to hang in your garden. Preferably move them around, otherwise the birds might smell a rat.

No idea if it would see off the parakeets, but it would probably empty your garden of any other bird who might otherwise disturb you with its singing :)

[Fitzgeraldo]

I was wondering whether trained predators, ferrets perhaps or similar creatures might be dispatched to the tree-tops in the hope that they might disturb the nesting birds, eat their eggs/young (along with possibly the nesting parents-to-be themselves) and thus solve the problem?

[Penguin68]

Well, that would be goodbye to birds in Dulwich. There is no way to train nest robbers to be species discriminate. Cats already take what they can catch. In the millions!

[nxjen]

Fitzgeraldo Wrote:

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> I was wondering whether trained predators, ferrets

> perhaps or similar creatures might be dispatched

> to the tree-tops in the hope that they might

> disturb the nesting birds, eat their eggs/young

> (along with possibly the nesting parents-to-be

> themselves) and thus solve the problem?

Now I know your first post wasn't serious. And if this second post is, it would still be against the law - see my earlier post.

[exdulwicher]

How do you cope going outside and seeing/hearing hundreds of them? Or is your life just one great Hitchcockian nightmare of birds everywhere?

As mentioned - leave them alone, it's against the law to disturb birds nests.

[bcam]

You?re either a troll or a really mean-spirited animal abuser.

Your wacky-races bonkers and frankly sick solution to kill baby birds is against the law.

Why don?t you move to a concrete high rise instead of unnaturally focussing on killing animals? Or just get over your fixation. Go for a walk. Flagellate yourself with a horse hair vest and cat-o-nine tails. Take your mind off Parakeets.

Fitzgeraldo Wrote:

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> I was wondering whether trained predators, ferrets

> perhaps or similar creatures might be dispatched

> to the tree-tops in the hope that they might

> disturb the nesting birds, eat their eggs/young

> (along with possibly the nesting parents-to-be

> themselves) and thus solve the problem?

[JohnL]

Fitzgeraldo Wrote:

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> I was wondering whether trained predators, ferrets

> perhaps or similar creatures might be dispatched

> to the tree-tops in the hope that they might

> disturb the nesting birds, eat their eggs/young

> (along with possibly the nesting parents-to-be

> themselves) and thus solve the problem?

Or maybe just some ear muffs :)

[JohnL]

Actually Americans hate Starlings which were introduced from the UK (LOL take that Trump) but even the Americans fully loaded can't get rid of them so as the Parakeets seem harmless I guess leave them be.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-invasive-species-we-can-blame-on-shakespeare-95506437/

"People quickly realized what a pest these birds could be and tried to get rid of them. In Hartford, Connecticut, in 1914, residents tried to scare the birds away from their nests by fastening teddy bears to those trees and firing rockets through the branches. The White House tried speakers that emitted owl calls. Columns around the U.S. Capitol were outfitted with electrified wires. People have tried shooting, poisoning, trapping, repelling and frightening the birds, but the population still grows. They have plenty to eat and lots of habitat to live on?what else does a species need?"

[nxjen]

There?s something very familiar about Fitzgeraldo?s style of posting ...

[malumbu]

Bloody green squawky things - stay out of my garden damn you. Black and pied squawky things are fine.

Guardian has an article on them as pests so surprised this isn't echoed more on this thread.

Informed (if wordy) (RSPB) view: The RSPB is not in favour of a cull of parakeets at this time, but believes it is important that the spread of the ring-necked parakeet is monitored and its potential for negative impacts on our native bird species assessed.

The government is obliged to ensure that non-native species do not adversely affect native wildlife and has developed a policy framework for addressing the possible risks associated with such species becoming established. This includes the production of evidence-based risk assessments of non-native species already in, or likely to reach, Great Britain. Decisions on the type of action necessary is based on the outcome of these risk assessments.

Ring-necked parakeets, like all birds living in the wild in the UK, are protected by law. The species can be controlled under licence in England, but only in isolated cases where the birds pose a serious threat to conservation of a native species, are causing serious damage to crops, or for air safety purposes.

[ED Bird]

The only "vermin" here, Fitzgeraldo, is you. If you spent less time living in your cosy little bubble & had any clue about the horrors other countries are currently facing, you wouldn't have posted this insensitive drivel to begin with.

You do realise people are risking & losing their lives to save animals - many on the brink of extinction - in Australia's bushfires right now? Does your situation compare?

[Trinnydad]

A different view...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/01/parakeet-cull-british-farms-birds-vineyards-research-uk

[JohnL]

It's pigeons where I am - I'd love a bit of variety - but all I see is pigeons.

They even tried to nest in my flat a few years back (came in the window and brought loads of stuff)