For WHO's birders

[Nurse Ratched]

"I thought you might like this video.



It's a compilation of different birds singing. Beautiful photography. If you expand the 'title' under the video it gives a list of species and the times they pop up in the video. Most of the species are familiar to us in the UK, but there are some 'exotics' (the cranes - wow, what a noise!) It was filmed in Belarus. The guy has a channel you can subscribe to. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it and maybe it'll take your mind off you-know-what for a few blessed minutes."

[duffster]

"Mex, they look lovely and are amusing to watch, but if they live outside your windows they are incredibly annoying. They just don't shut up and make a real racket."

[Hammer and Pickle]

Remarkable bird the Himalayan Parakeet. Beautiful plumage.

[Nurse Ratched]

"Mex, I read that their habitat in the wild extends into the Himalayas, so I doubt English winters trouble them much."

[Mex Martillo]

There’s loads of green parakeets in Barcelona as well. Quite nice to see them in the trees on the big avenues. I guess parakeets adapt well to city life to be populating large cities away from the tropics.

[Side of Ham]

"Nice news Sold, I was worried you was going to have to make a little trip down there at some point to melt some snowflakes.....wildlife is a wonderful cure for lots of things in life it's only self obsessed sleazy fuckers like Swiss who haven't gathered this in life......everything he's done is superficial tripe things to have as experiences....your daughter sounds like she's tough nut to stick it out."

[Northern Sold]

Daughter is at uni at Reading... every day she will take a walk down to the thames to feed her babies as she calls them... proper doolittle with a family of egyptian geese.... sits diwn there for hours with them feeding them from her hand.... its keeping her sane at the mo.

[Nurse Ratched]

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[Side of Ham]

Nurse it's well known Swiss has a Disney+ subscription over in the piss & shit smelling streets of Brussels.....his favourite scene is when Snow White is singing 'A Smile and a Song' with all the little birds..........

[Nurse Ratched]

Child.

[Swiss.]

"There's some right Tits in here. Ooh did I spell that properly...chortle , chortle... Go have you your Winterwatch wank...lol"

[Mike Oxsaw]

"When I was living in The Hague (1998 - 2006), the woods opposite my house had a large flock of parakeets."

[Side of Ham]

Surprised your country has let them in Pickle tbh.....

[Nurse Ratched]

Surf - indeed. Very indeed.

[Hammer and Pickle]

"Blackbird’s song here is noticeably different. Though still undeniably in “Blackbird”, it is, I suppose, much more thrush-like."

[Hammer and Pickle]

"Blackbird’s song here is noticeably different. Though still undeniably in “Blackbird”, it is, I suppose, much more thrush-like."

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

Nurse Ratched 6:22 Mon Feb 1 '1 Blackbird' sad face...

[Nurse Ratched]

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[Bungo]

Nurse Ratched 12:53 Sat Feb 6 This is true. I had a Geordie sparrow in my garden the other day. Couldn't for the life of me understand what it was saying.

[Nurse Ratched]

"I presume you know birds actually do have regional 'accents'? It's been proved by boffins. I had an Algerian minicab driver pick me up from home. While he was waiting for me to organise myself to leave the house (not a simple undertaking) he noticed goldfinches flying in and out of my garden and he remarked on it when I got into the car. He told me that keeping birds is his hobby, mainly finches, and he has an aviary in his back garden. He loves goldfinches and has groups that were caught or bred in Algeria, Spain and England. He said they have noticeably distinct songs according to their 'nationality'."

[Hammer and Pickle]

I love the idea of parakeets developing a cockney accent and not being able to SKWAWK to their Spanish cousins.

[Nurse Ratched]

"Aalborg, they are ring-necked parakeets, otherwise known as rose-ringed parakeets. There are quite a few theories or urban myths seeking to explain how the birds came to be free in London/the South East. Here's a nice article about it, but it's a bit out of date: I've read somewhere recently that an attempted cull is now on the cards in some form. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/06/the-great-green-expansion-how-ring-necked-parakeets-took-over-london Given how quickly numbers have exploded in the last 30 years, I find it hard to believe they escaped sometime during the 16th century - surely they'd be more numerous than pigeons by now?"

[Coffee]

"Aalborg Hammer 11:33 Sat Feb 6 In about 1990 or 1991, I went with an ex to the Ashdown Forest in Sussex, off the A22. We saw loads of parakeets, dozens of them, perhaps a hundred or more all making an almighty racket. I told family and others about it when we got back, but nobody believed it. I've never seen them there since and there's no mention of them today in the Ashdown Forest's bird club or whatever it's called, But they were there."

[Aalborg Hammer]

Nursery.. I expect you've heard but there's lots of stories about how the parakeets appeared in London...one was that they escaped when they were filming African Queen and another was that they were released deliberately...amazing how they've acclimatised. I used to work in Leatherhead and there were loads there...are they ring tailed ??

[Hammer and Pickle]

"Lots of COVIDAE parliaments this month - jackdaws in their thousands, tens of magpies and seven (SEVEN) jays it what may have been a pear tree."

[Mex Martillo]

I am amazed you get all those birds in Urban London. That is really great and well done to you. Never seen a squirrel in my area.