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
