Ring-necked parakeets, despite being native to sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, have found home in Southwest London and Surrey ... such as Bushy and Richmond Parks. In their natural habitat ...

Yet Florin explains that the mosaic of gardens, parks, mature trees, mixed hedges and older ... Giedriius/ Shutterstock You can get extremely close to the parakeets in London's Kensington Gardens, not ...

A one-year contract was signed by Fuengirola's town hall to tackle the problem of the growing population of parakeets.

These things may have happened, but claims that any of them was the original source of parakeets in the UK have been dismissed as urban myths. Researchers at University College London recently ...

Now Town Hall bosses in the city of Fuengirola, 25 miles along the coast from Malaga, are increasing efforts to control the ...