parrot in the garden?
John Richer
About 6 o'clock last night my daughter noticed a bright green bird in
the garden - looking like a small parrot of some sort. It hung around
for a few minutes then flew off, just as I returned with my camera. Not
being a twitcher, I've no idea what it was or what it was doing here.
It was bright green, with green/brown striping on the wings, and a
yellow tuft on its head. It was bigger than tit/sparrow/standard
budgie, quite chubby I'd say, perhaps 15cm tall. Any ideas? I've read
that parrots numbers are increasing in the south east, or was it just a
neighbour's pet that has escaped? (The garden is in West Chesterton).
Andrew Mobbs
Apparently parrots are increasingly settling down for a comfortable
suburban life in England.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3869815.stm
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Tim Fitzmaurice
>
> About 6 o'clock last night my daughter noticed a bright green bird in
> the garden - looking like a small parrot of some sort. It hung around
> for a few minutes then flew off, just as I returned with my camera. Not
> being a twitcher, I've no idea what it was or what it was doing here.
> It was bright green, with green/brown striping on the wings, and a
> yellow tuft on its head. It was bigger than tit/sparrow/standard
> budgie, quite chubby I'd say, perhaps 15cm tall. Any ideas? I've read
Erm it wasnt a green woodpecker was it???? Ive seen a fair few round
Cambridge....or was it too bright for that...
TIm
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Just Molly
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longer than the body? The desciption you give doesn't correspond to any
parrotlike birds I know of.
John Richer
>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Fitzmaurice <tj...@cus.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> On 20 Jul 2004, John Richer wrote:
>> About 6 o'clock last night my daughter noticed a bright green
>> bird in the garden - looking like a small parrot of some sort. It
>> hung around for a few minutes then flew off, just as I returned
>> with my camera. Not being a twitcher, I've no idea what it was
>> or what it was doing here. It was bright green, with green/brown
>> striping on the wings, and a yellow tuft on its head. It was
>> bigger than tit/sparrow/standard budgie, quite chubby I'd say,
>> perhaps 15cm tall. Any ideas? I've read
> Erm it wasnt a green woodpecker was it???? Ive seen a fair few
> round Cambridge....or was it too bright for that...
Definitely not - this was bright, almost fluorescent green, and quite
parrot shaped.
John Richer
Not Enough Information. Hence my rush for a camera last night. I can't
recall the beak colour, but the tail was short. Using Google images for
"green parrot" as a mugshot gallery, I would say it was most like this
one - the colour is spot on:
http://www.tobago.hm/folk/bird-pics/bz-parrot.jpg
This appers to be a Green-rumped Parrotlet.
So it had a short-ish beak. It's *not* like this one:
http://www.greenparrot-belize.com/images/jupstup300.jpg
Sue Rogers
Ring-necked parakeets have settled in huge flocks around SE London/Kent
but they have long tails so come in at longer than 15cm though they are
all-fluoro-green with bit of red around the head.
Velvet
Parrotlets are really quite small though, I thought, and your
description makes it sound larger than a parrotlet. A long tail would
have pointed to a ringneck, but the markings don't match and you didn't
mention the ring around the neck. Only other one I can think of is a
quaker or monk parakeet, since both they and ringnecks are both to be
foudn in the wild in the UK now.
http://www.plannedparrothood.com/shows/y2001/01jade.jpg (quaker or monk
parakeet)
and
http://www.abc.net.au/southcoast/stories/m398185.jpg (for the indian
ringneck).
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Mike Edie
I saw a notice in a house window for a lost green parrot. I think it was on
Mawson Street or one of those roads off Mill Road about there.
[Yes I know, "Polly Gone" we've all heard it. ]
Jacquie Rhodes
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Jon S Green
> Apparently parrots are increasingly settling down for a comfortable
> suburban life in England.
Yep, there's a small flock around the Twickenham/Isleworth area. You
can see/hear them from my Mum's house.
Jon
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Jens Tingleff
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Andrew Mobbs wrote:
> John Richer <j...@mrao.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
[...]
>>yellow tuft on its head. It was bigger than tit/sparrow/standard
>>budgie, quite chubby I'd say, perhaps 15cm tall. Any ideas? I've read
>>that parrots numbers are increasing in the south east, or was it just a
>>neighbour's pet that has escaped? (The garden is in West Chesterton).
>
> Apparently parrots are increasingly settling down for a comfortable
> suburban life in England.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3869815.stm
>
Oooh!
Foreign Birds!
Here to steal our, ahh, well.
Anyway, after a few paragraphs, we get standard "the foreigners are here"
rubbish:
"Grahame Madge, spokesman for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
(RSPB), says parakeets are bigger and bolder than some of their native
rivals - and "are quite capable of evicting other birds"."
;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)
Best Regards
Jens
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<jens_t...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Foreign Birds!
>
>Here to steal our, ahh, well.
>
>Anyway, after a few paragraphs, we get standard "the foreigners are here"
>rubbish:
Not 'foreigners, please. They are seed-seekers.
GR
Just Molly
Just Molly
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ringnecks have a tuft.
Velvet
Me too, but I figured it might just have been a ruffled few feathers
with light filtering through, and worth a comparison photo or two anyway..
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Teresa
shoulder a few days ago...probably not related, but quite a coincidence!
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