Rose-Ringed Parakeet are herbivorous, non-migratory and medium sized parrots who's population continues to grow and are often spotted in London.
They are tropical birds, however they continue to survive well during the cold winters and are often seen thoughout the year, perched on Kennington Park's tall trees, now barren in the winter season. With their common bright green feathers and loud chatter and squawking, similar to some other parakeets such as the Monk Parakeet, the Rose-Ringed Parakeets of both genders are capable of mimicing human speech.
Although parakeets usually roast in large flocks this one lone parakeet was spotted to be several trees from other parakeets, possibly searching for food such as berries, nuts, grain or seeds.
Kennington Park is a well maintained park, giving the Rose-Ringed Parakeets a lovely and welcoming habitat to live in, and there is also a flower garden that was reopened in 2015 which when walking you can see many other birds and animals such as wrens, bees and sometimes if your lucky, you would be able to see Pipistrelle bats flying around at dusk looking for insects, consuming a large amount of them of up to 3000 per night.
Most of the large amount of trees in the park is known to be the London Plane (Platanus hispanica), they were chosen far back in 1854 and stands tall in the park today, playing a great part in the habitat of the large variety of interesting animals ranging from tropical birds to narrow winged bats.
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