What are rose-ringed parakeets doing in London, or in Tokyo, or Amsterdam, or in Glasgow…? Learn about how escaped pets birds are colonizing cities around the globe. Matt Halley joins us to talk about his own parrot field work and to discuss urban parakeets. We hear from Krishna Girish of Off Road Birder to learn about the rose-ringed parakeets in their native range (Bangalore), we hear from Ralph Hancock of London to hear about how their exotic parakeets feed the local raptors, and we go back to Sourav Mahmud to hear about his work to help the alexandrine parakeets of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
(and we wind up with some bonus urban birding discussion with Krishna)
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