Hi, got an email from my brother who was shooting in Surrey and they managed to bring down a couple of beautiful parakeets!
would love to upload a photo but the old computer can be a pain in the arse.

At home we have a couple of white pheasants (with an attached £50 charity donation) which a guest shot the other day.

Click here to see pics of the parakeets from Surrey

Click here to see the white pheasant.


Hope you enjoy!

We have a similar case in SW Germany, the "Yellow-crowned Amazon or Yellow-crowned Parrot (Amazona ochrocephala)" lives quite happily in the city parks o Stuttgart. I have never eaten one though.

Wikipedia.

i thought it was something completly different you were talking about and were just about to tell a few stories.
thank gods i found out in time, before this got akward and my wife could read it as well.

peter

What did they taste like?
What recipe did he use?

horrible apparently. he gave up after the first bite and had the local fish and chips!

Don't know the exact recipe but i think he roasted them like a pigeon

"horrible apparently. he gave up after the first bite and had the local fish and chips!"

A pity,
I was thinking that a piquant parakeet pate might be a pleasant new addition to the larder but, if they taste like they screech, I'll give it a miss.

Parakeets taste horrible.
They are a pest (for crops) in India and shot (illegally) by farmers for crop protection.

Even the tribals (who eat most things) dont eat them.

Thanks for all the interest to my blog. Much appreciated. got some new videos and pictures to be seen.

I shot and ate a parrot in Belize when on jungle survival training many years ago.It was a stupid waste of a good looking bird.

Probably even less of an excuse for shooting one in Surrey, but thats the folly of youth for you!

They are an invasive non-native species now on general license- shoot them all!