Schoolboy finds exotic birds in Swansea park
Stories of the exotic birds finding homes in the British wild abound as far back as Victorian times, peaking in the 1930s, 1960s and 1990s.
Studies by the Natural History Museum have since debunked these tales, as DNA samples from London’s population showed them to have originated from many varied sources, not just one or two releases into the wild.Ornithologist Emily Shepard, professor of biosciences at Swansea University said: “Although they appear quite exotic, parakeets are actually very well adapted to European conditions, not just here, but across France, Spain and Italy.
She explained that although the precise origins of the Swansea family are unknown, they fit the pattern of other UK populations. Caleb, though, has a question: “I get that one parakeet might have escaped from a home in Swansea, but surely there needs to be a daddy and a mummy parakeet for them to have had chicks, and to have gone from one to four or five…?”
“I’m a minister at the Morriston Mission, and every year we visit Nepal to teach under-privileged children.
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