Unusual Roadkill.

[novice 25]

They're around south Manchester as well. They we're flying around whalley range cricket ground shouting their heads off when I was playing there last summer.

 

Wonder if they have a use and may drive magpies away as they seem very aggressive and bold. If they were to do that and not predate songbirds themselves then I wouldn't be adverse to seeing a few about.

 

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[mackem 23,681]

They are nesting in a roof in my mates street

 

[Boss-Hog 269]

id fuckn shoot em on my roof all day long noisy fuckers

[kanny 19,323]

This parrot has ceased to be!

[waltjnr 5,958]

id fuckn shoot em on my roof all day long noisy fuckers

If you could hit em!

[Nik_B 3,790]

I may be wrong but I think I read somewhere last year that they have started granting licences to shoot em, as well as there being loads of em I think they may Nick woodpecker nests for themselves, interesting fact coming up, they apparently escaped from the film set of African queen, the old Humphrey bogart movie back in the 50s and have been on the increase ever since, bloody immigrants

 

They take over Nuthatch nests and compete with them for food so probably affect their numbers.

 

They should be wiped out like grey squirrels and all the other invasive species.

[sussex 5,776]

Talking of unusual road kill see this little fella today ..

 

 

Edited to say the ring neck parakeet is on the general licence ..

[Jonjon79 13,340]

It's Gulls round here - there's 1 old bag that feeds them - she feeds foxes, pigeons, rats, feckin everything.

 

We get a swarm of Gulls in the morning and the evening - they shit everywhere.

 

Most of them are black backed Gulls - I'm praying for them to nest on my property and become a pain in the arse

[Nik_B 3,790]

We have a mixture of gulls, crows and antis who apparently think the crows are great....luckily they nest at their end of the woods

[Accip74 7,112]

Big population of parakeets here also. Unusually I hardly see road kill on Belgian roads. I suppose the absence of a big rabbit population & a lack of thousands of commercial pheasants is one reason.....

[peterhunter86 8,627]

It's Gulls round here - there's 1 old bag that feeds them - she feeds foxes, pigeons, rats, feckin everything.

We get a swarm of Gulls in the morning and the evening - they shit everywhere.

Most of them are black backed Gulls - I'm praying for them to nest on my property and become a pain in the arse

 

 

Gull's are noisy cnuts,when we young there was and old nosy prick lived round the corner we used to throw food on his roof every night and the gull's would do his head in every morning.

[Jonjon79 13,340]

 

It's Gulls round here - there's 1 old bag that feeds them - she feeds foxes, pigeons, rats, feckin everything.

We get a swarm of Gulls in the morning and the evening - they shit everywhere.

Most of them are black backed Gulls - I'm praying for them to nest on my property and become a pain in the arse

 

 

Gull's are noisy cnuts,when we young there was and old nosy prick lived round the corner we used to throw food on his roof every night and the gull's would do his head in every morning.

Brilliant

 

I think the only thing that would work on this lot is a machine gun battery set up on my lawn

[bell 3,503]

 

I may be wrong but I think I read somewhere last year that they have started granting licences to shoot em, as well as there being loads of em I think they may Nick woodpecker nests for themselves, interesting fact coming up, they apparently escaped from the film set of African queen, the old Humphrey bogart movie back in the 50s and have been on the increase ever since, bloody immigrants

 

They take over Nuthatch nests and compete with them for food so probably affect their numbers.

 

They should be wiped out like grey squirrels and all the other invasive species.

They look way larger than a nuthatch Nick.....never seen one so only guessing.....would they use the same holes ? (And yes I know nuthatch make theirs smaller ...) ??

[Nik_B 3,790]

 

 

I may be wrong but I think I read somewhere last year that they have started granting licences to shoot em, as well as there being loads of em I think they may Nick woodpecker nests for themselves, interesting fact coming up, they apparently escaped from the film set of African queen, the old Humphrey bogart movie back in the 50s and have been on the increase ever since, bloody immigrants

They take over Nuthatch nests and compete with them for food so probably affect their numbers.

 

They should be wiped out like grey squirrels and all the other invasive species.

They look way larger than a nuthatch Nick.....never seen one so only guessing.....would they use the same holes ? (And yes I know nuthatch make theirs smaller ...) ??

 

 

I read somewhere that a study had been done on in their impact on other birds, this isn't the one I read but I just found it.

 

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01808.x/abstract

[mackem 23,681]

 

 

I may be wrong but I think I read somewhere last year that they have started granting licences to shoot em, as well as there being loads of em I think they may Nick woodpecker nests for themselves, interesting fact coming up, they apparently escaped from the film set of African queen, the old Humphrey bogart movie back in the 50s and have been on the increase ever since, bloody immigrants

They take over Nuthatch nests and compete with them for food so probably affect their numbers.

 

They should be wiped out like grey squirrels and all the other invasive species.

They look way larger than a nuthatch Nick.....never seen one so only guessing.....would they use the same holes ? (And yes I know nuthatch make theirs smaller ...) ??

 

When you have one in your hand they have a body size a little bigger than a starling,if they did use nuthatch holes it would be easy for them to open the entrance,there was a lesser spotted woodpeckers nest a few years back in the next street,the following year it had a parakeet nesting in it.