London chef and restaurant owner Cyrus Todiwala recalls for Tweet of the Day a once familiar sound to him in India, now heard near his London home, the ring-necked parakeet. Producer Maggie Ayre.

Parakeets!! We either love them or loathe them. I'm talking about the rose-ringed parakeet sometimes mistakenly called ring-necked parakeet whose population has escalated rapidly over the past 30 ...

Titled "Not in the countryside please! Investigating UK residents’ perceptions of an introduced species, the ring-necked parakeet," the study centres on an online survey of 3,947 residents ...

Several bird species, including mynas, ring-necked parakeets, cockatiels, budgerigars, cockatoos, and eclectus parrots, possess impressive mimicry skills and can imitate human speech. These birds ...