Records of parakeets living wild in the UK can be found going back to the mid-nineteenth century, but it is only since the late 1990s that the raucous green parrots have been seen in London and ...

but not all parakeets are budgies. Wild budgerigars are nomadic and spend their lives roaming from pasture to pasture. They travel incredibly long distances to find food, up to 25 kilometers daily.

Although native to Africa and Asia the parakeets are more than capable of surviving our winters A few years ago I was at a friend's barbecue in South London. Suddenly over the sizzle of the ...

“Dingo” is derived from din-gu, the Dharug word for domesticated dog – wild dingoes were known as “warrigal”. A few common native species such as budgies can be kept without a license ...