Editing Parakeet (section)

== European population ==
=== Belgian population ===
{{As of|2023}}, an estimated 10,000 parakeets lived in [[Brussels]], the capital of Belgium. The total made them one of the most populous birds in the city, behind only pigeons and sparrows.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gross |first=Jenny |date=2023-11-10 |title=How Tropical Birds Took Over This European Capital, Bringing a 'Splash of Color' |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/world/europe/parakeets-brussels.html |access-date=2023-11-10}}</ref>

=== Spain's parakeet control measures ===
According to a 2018 report, Spanish authorities drew up plans to curb the ever-growing population of parakeets, which reached 30,000 in locations such as Malaga.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/23/plans-use-snipers-control-parakeet-population-draws-anger-spain/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/23/plans-use-snipers-control-parakeet-population-draws-anger-spain/ |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Plan to use snipers to control parakeet population draws anger in Spain|last=Strange|first=Hannah|date=2018-11-23|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|access-date=2020-02-02|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

=== United Kingdom ===
{{Main|Feral parakeets in Great Britain}}
In December 2019, Steven Le Comber, of [[Queen Mary University]] in London, UK, published an analysis in the ''[[Journal of Zoology]]'' based on [[geographic profiling]] methods. It concluded that the thriving rose-ringed parakeet population in the United Kingdom had grown from numerous small-scale accidental and intentional pet releases. Previous theories had included a pair released by [[Jimi Hendrix]] on [[Carnaby Street]] and an arrival in 1951 when [[Humphrey Bogart]] and [[Katharine Hepburn]] visited London with various animals to film ''[[The African Queen (film)|The African Queen]],'' set in the equatorial swamps of east Africa.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/dec/12/hendrix-hepburn-study-busts-myths-about-origins-of-uks-parakeets|title=Hendrix? Hepburn? Study busts myths about origins of UK's parakeets|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=12 December 2019|access-date=12 December 2019|archive-date=12 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212201337/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/dec/12/hendrix-hepburn-study-busts-myths-about-origins-of-uks-parakeets|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50755015|title = Jimi Hendrix cleared of blame for UK parakeet release|work = [[BBC News]]|publisher = [[BBC]]|date = 12 December 2019|access-date = 12 December 2019|archive-date = 12 December 2019|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191212200639/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50755015|url-status = live}}</ref>