Saturday 8 May 2021

We Live In Beckenham Place Park,

as do a large number of these, 


ring necked parakeets, originally from Asia, I have mentioned them before in April 2010 and again in April, but of 2011, although the numbers are large, to most of us they are not a nuisance, but if their numbers start to spin out of control, this can happen, 

photographs justsheff33/TikTok, the New South Wales resort town of Nowra was recently invades by thousands of corellas, a subgenus of white cockatoo, for years people here have been sharing the town with corellas, and although many of them hate the birds it looks like there are in Nowra to stay,

"They’re supposed to be a pest, and they do a lot of destruction to the trees," one Nowra woman told the Sidney Morning Herald. "I’m always sweeping feathers away", corellas takeover of Nowra has been a long time coming, in fact, experts have been warning about it for years, these birds are not dumb, some claim that they have the intellect of an average two-year-old, so they quickly figured out that moving into a cosy man-made from the semi-arid wilderness of New South Wales was the smart thing to do, like our ring necked parakeets they hadn’t been seen in urban areas before the 1950s, and now they are everywhere,

“We have created a perfect habitat for little corellas and they are taking us up on the offer,” academics at the University of South Australia wrote in a 2018 report, adding that urban planning was the biggest problem. The wide-open lawns of Nowra skirted by tall trees and an easily-accessible water source make the perfect habitat for the white cockatoos, according to 9News, large flocks of corellas gather on the streets of Nowra every single day, so it’s safe to say that the locals’ problems with the birds are only getting worse, and there is very little they can do about it, let us just hope the ring necked parakeets we have in the UK do not read about their far off cousins!


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