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Rose-ringed Parakeet

Psittacula krameri

Description:

Feral, green and yellow parrot with a black and pink ring around the neck. There were three of them, one male and two females in a palm tree making a bunch of noise! These are not native but have naturalized in the wild.

Habitat:

Palm tree in Balboa Park in San Diego. "The Rose-ringed Parakeet has proved to be an adaptable species and its adaptations to cold winters in the Himalayan foothills allow it to easily withstand European winter conditions.[6] It has established feral populations in India, a number of European cities, South Africa and Japan. There are also apparently stable populations in the USA (Florida, California and Hawaii) and a small self-sustaining population in Tunis, Tunisia, and Tehran, Iran (concentrated in the north side of the city). They are also found throughout Lebanon, Israel, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman. There are a small number of escaped birds in Australia." - Wikipedia

Notes:

"The specimens in these naturalized populations often represent intra-specific hybrids, originally between varying numbers — according to locality — of the subspecies manillensis, borealis, and/or (to a lesser extent) krameri along with[verification needed] some inter-specific hybrids with naturalized Psittacula eupatria (Alexandrine Parakeet)." - Wikipedia

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San Diego, California, USA

Spotted on Mar 2, 2013
Submitted on Mar 2, 2013

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