Yeah. When they first showed up in my garden they were only like four, and then every year it seemed like they were getting two more, i started to worry that it's going to end up in a big group, but it seems like this group is not getting bigger than ten birds. I still can enjoy the noise of a small group like that.
My parents kept these things as pets when I was a kid. Those ones were awful. Screeching bloody murder day and night. They'd bite if you tried to handle them. And they didn't sing, they just shrieked like goddamn banshees. Just awful creatures.
They are pleasantly colorful, though, from far enough away.
No, they're native in Asia and Africa. But they have been living here since the eighties or something. They are under supervision if they are harming the native fauna and flora but so far i think that is not the case.
Yeah i love having them around. And i'm glad that it's no more then like ten of them in my garden, there are some spots in the city where there's a ton of them and they make a lot of noise, haha. In autumn they're sitting in this tree non stop snacking all the seeds for about a week or two, that is always a good time.