London is 51.5° North and Düsseldorf is 51.2° so basically the same, but your winters are a lot colder than ours I imagine, meaning our parakeets can live in places further North, like Durham.
There are many rumours about how they got loose in the UK. One is a music video/film with Jimmy Hendrix at Elstree studios in Borehamwood where they were released as part of the production. There are quite a lot of them in that area so it may be true 🫨
Winters are a lot milder here than they used to be, although if they’ve been around for 50 years their ancestor made it through colder winters than i have seen i guess. Interesting that they seem to be the same kind of parakeets in London!
I feel like the population grew a lot this century, like @peachfront@toot.community said, they surely weren’t as present when i moved here. Then again from what i read, the population is only slightly growing.
That’s really interesting, thanks Drempels.
London is 51.5° North and Düsseldorf is 51.2° so basically the same, but your winters are a lot colder than ours I imagine, meaning our parakeets can live in places further North, like Durham.
There are many rumours about how they got loose in the UK. One is a music video/film with Jimmy Hendrix at Elstree studios in Borehamwood where they were released as part of the production. There are quite a lot of them in that area so it may be true 🫨
Winters are a lot milder here than they used to be, although if they’ve been around for 50 years their ancestor made it through colder winters than i have seen i guess. Interesting that they seem to be the same kind of parakeets in London!
I feel like the population grew a lot this century, like @peachfront@toot.community said, they surely weren’t as present when i moved here. Then again from what i read, the population is only slightly growing.