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RE: The Curious Tale Of The British Wild Parakeet
Not that anything can be done at this point, but I wonder what effects they have had on British birds: competition for resources (food and nesting materials), introduction of foreign parasites and pathogens and other factors. Probably unknowable.
Lovely birds. A search through the popular science literature might turn up more details.
Up until now, the wisdom has been that there has been very little environmental impact seeing as the amount of farm land in the Southeast is minimal. Now however as they spread North the government is concerned that they may have a bigger imp;act. So they've set up their parrot watch initiative, we shall see! :-)
Cg