The birds first came to Britain as pets but some escaped into the wild and are now a common site in suburban South East England, particularly west London and Kent, although they have been as far north ...

Visitors to Chicago’s Hyde Park or New York’s Green-Wood Cemetery may be surprised to hear the raucous squawks of lime-green monk parakeets. These birds, descendants of escaped pets, have managed to ...

DAVIS (CBS13) — A search is on in Davis for a flock of escaped parakeets. On Wednesday, 13 parakeets from the Village Homes community aviary flew away. The birds were in a temporary enclosure while ...

It happens to you slowly. You might find yourself waking before dawn, a period of a Sunday morning that really ought never to be witnessed, and catching the 6:30 a.m. bus headed somewhere. Blink, and ...

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Reclining in the chair of his home office in Farnham, England, Keith Betton says he'd be happy to look out and see one — and only one — ringed-neck parakeet feeding from his backyard birdfeeder. "I ...

The final notes of the overture to Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro end triumphantly, but, as applause ripples through the Opera Holland Park audience, there is a loud, prolonged squawk. Figaro and ...