South Manchester - the home to Didsbury and Chorlton, arguably two of the cities most celebrated areas, student hotspot Fallowfield, and a flurry of parakeets. The parakeet is an indigenous bird ...

Manchester's colourful parakeet population is being celebrated with a new mural. It has been painted on the side of The Albert Pub on Wilmslow Road in Withington. It was created by arts collective ...

When parakeets first appeared in the Museum's Wildlife Garden, Florin advised staff to shoo them away. He explains, 'The idea is to give them the impression that the place is dangerous.' It worked - ...

Britain's only naturalised parrot, the ring-necked parakeet, Psittacula krameri, has firmly established itself in parts of the country. An exotic-looking bird, with a green body, red beak and a ...

The birds first made it to the UK in the late 19th century but it was not until recent decades that the population exploded. The number of parakeets grew by 1,455% between 1995 and 2015 and there ...

The parakeet is one of the the world’s most successful invasive species . Though they are not native to the UK, ring-necked parakeets are now so numerous here that they qualify as a common ...

After a small group of parakeets were released from a zoo in Brussels in the 1970s, their numbers soared. A population increase has also occurred across the continent.