The sounds of Brussels: wild budgies

High above our heads and the less pleasant layers of car traffic, budgies tweet and chirp and chitter. Nestling in the crowns of pine trees in various parks across the EU capital, they add a subtropical flavor to Brussels' diverse soundscape. Just as most of the city's inhabitants, the ring-necked, Alexandrine and Quaker parrots came from a different place. Having escaped a zoo exhibit many years ago, they've been eking out a living, adapting to the tempered climate and found themselves a new h