Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 2:40 "Our residents seem to prefer the palm trees," said Leah Pummill, president of the Audubon Outdoor Club of Corpus Christi.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 10:46 
Christine Brock SEVEN perched monk parakeets were shot dead in Borehamwood as part of a fact-finding mission by the Government's environmental body in 2008.
Freedom of information requests reveal the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) spent £37,000 investigating the most effective options to attempt an eradication or population control programme, between September and November 2008.
Documents show a range of techniques were employed in an unknown Borehamwood location, censored due to privacy issues, to find out how the birds would react.
Following a four day test in which nests were removed, a report dated October 7 states: “During agonistic activity and rebuilding activity birds presented themselves openly on branches (easy targets for shooter).”
Myiopsitta monachus - Monk Parakeet | in Cull, Urban parrots Friday, May 27, 2011 at 11:00 Josh Cook, a TEDx speaker, explores a fine line between training and freedom with the damaged birds he adopts. John Huxley reports.
Ara ararauna - Blue-and-Gold Macaw | in Free-flight, Pet care, Training Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 6:36 
Alex the parrot died in 2007, after learning more words than any bird before him. He changed the way people think about animal intelligence. But his education wouldn't have been possible without an unsung research assistant who pretended to be a parrot.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 12:12 
Monk Parakeet Photo: Thomas QuineTHE Government's environmental body has stepped up its efforts to eradicate a feral population of monk parakeets in Borehamwood this week.
Work has centred on a home in Mildred Avenue, near to the backgarden of a house in Furzhill Road, where it is thought a number of the South American birds escaped from an aviary in the 1990s.
A resident, who did not wish to be named, said officers from The Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA) were going hell-for-leather as they brought in cherry pickers and chainsaws to continue their work.
Sightings of mysterious white sacks being removed has alarmed some people, following the revelation that four birds have so far been killed.
Myiopsitta monachus - Monk Parakeet | in Cull, Urban parrots 
