Rose-ringed parakeets can be identified by their long tails (about the same length as their lime-green bodies), red beaks and loud call. Mature male parakeets have a black or rose-colored ring around ...

Chennai: The state govt’s campaign against using rose-ringed parakeets as pets seems to have worked as the trade has come down drastically this year. The early months of the year are the time when ...

Colourful flocks of rose-ringed parakeets have dazzled people since they swooped into suburban gardens and parks more than 50 years ago. Rose-ringed parakeets were first introduced to South Africa in ...

Experts say it’s only luck that the rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri), native to Africa and the Indian subcontinent and now the “most common invasive parrot on the planet”, hasn’t yet become ...

The Rose-ringed Parakeet, a foreign parrot native to Africa and India, was first reported flying wild in Ireland in 1998. It is not known how that individual got here; the speculation at the time was ...

Roland Goo first noticed the green fog six years ago, as it rolled over his 20-acre orchard on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Suddenly, amid a deafening chirping chorus, the cloud dispersed into ...

Parakeets live in flocks. But 'Shree', a female rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri), was part of the family of A. Murugesan of Pappanaickenpalayam in Coimbatore for a year. The family had been ...

The city police rescued 14 rose-ringed parakeet chicks from poachers while they were being sold at a pet shop here. An FIR has been filed against Thomas, Verghees, and Vijay Kumar from Bengaluru, who ...

The evening started peacefully enough at Long Lane Recreation Park in the western suburbs of London, disturbed only by the occasional rumble of a distant jet landing at Heathrow Airport. But just ...