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 ...

Rose-ring parakeets, which can be identified by their long tails, red beaks, and loud call, have recently been confirmed on Maui. Mature male parakeets have a black or rose-colored ring around their ...

KIHEI (HawaiiNewsNow) - A new invasive pest has been captured on the Valley Isle. A rose-ringed parakeet was captured in Kihei in July. It’s unclear how many of the invasive birds are on the island, ...

On the Hawaiian island of Kauai, rose-ringed parakeets, which are often kept as pets, have bred in the wild, destroying farms and bothering residents. They may also be threatening native plants. PBS ...

Aim: Some invasive species succeed particularly well and manage to establish populations across a wide variety of regions and climatic conditions. Understanding how biotic and environmental factors ...

A friend of mine sent me these photos from London, which I believe are of parakeets. The birds seem out of place, but London is a big polyglot city. Are they native? –George, Arlington, VA Take it ...

Was it his sparkling personality or his neon-green shirt? Or maybe he was mistaken for a pirate. All Raymond Hedrick knows is he was playing tennis with his regular group of tennis friends over the ...

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 ...

It seems incongruous: fluorescent-green tropical birds totally at home in a park in Hesse, Germany (pictured, above). Are they fugitives from a tearoom or a pirate ship? No—just opportunistic avians ...