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Albion Park Rail Rose-ringed Parakeets - but Monk Parakeets in Barcelona

To: "Carl Clifford" <>, "Birding-Aus Aus" <>
Subject: Albion Park Rail Rose-ringed Parakeets - but Monk Parakeets in Barcelona?
From: "michael norris" <>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:01:35 +1100
Hi Carl

I assumed the numerous birds I saw in Barcelona were Rose-ringed/Ring-necked Parakeets. But, from what others have written to me, the Barcelona birds are Monk Parakeets/"Quaker Parrots" (Myiopsitta monachus Boddaert 1783).

Incidentally there was a pair of Monk Parakeets (one blue) in a Melbourne street not long ago.

Michael Norris
Melbourne




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