The Rose-ringed Parakeets of Heidelberg
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2012
With 7,500 birds (1,500 breeding pairs), the German population is still rather small compared to the numbers the parakeets have built up in the UK or the Netherlands, where the populations range in the 10s of thousands. The zoo has a small colony of genuinely wild Grey Herons (watch them compete with the seals for the fish!),
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