Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
MARMARA GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, sa.38, ss.279-294, 2018 (ESCI)
The natural habitat of rose-ringed parakeets (Psittacula krameri) is Africa, South Asia. However, it can live as exotic species in our country as it is in many Southwest Asian countries. In these countries where they were taken to captive animals, they managed to escape from the cages and to recruit them in their urban areas or agricultural fields. Although their homeland has equatorial climatic conditions for Koppen-Geiger climate classification, they have been adapting to different weather conditions from arid-semiarid climate to snow climate. In Turkey, they prepare the green spaces within the urban area more often than rural areas and agricultural areas. In the natural environment, fruits, vegetables, various seeds, nuts are the main foods. It is reported as they have been first observed in 1976 in Ankara. Factors influencing their selection of urban parks, forests in Turkey can be listed as; 1. The anthropogenic heat and winter conditions of public buildings in the city and d also in the winter conditions urban climate are more suitable than in rural areas. 2. The roofing sections of the buildings shall provide proper nesting conditions. 3. A simple urban green area in Turkey is to have purely exotic plant species. 4. Urban green spaces has offers the ecosystem services as a part of the betting area. 5. The absence of a hunter or competitor in urban areas. In many European countries and in Australia rose-ringed parakeets are considered as invasive species or pest species, but there are no detailed studies on the relationship of domesticated birds and other living things with in Turkey.