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Updated India Index Estimated a 137.7% Long-term Increase for Alexandrine Parakeet

Alexandrine Parakeet perched on a wire against a pale sky
Conservation · Population & status

The 2025 interim update to State of India’s Birds, released on 6 May 2026, estimated a strong national increase in the abundance index for Alexandrine parakeet (Psittacula eupatria). The long-term estimate was +137.7%.

The more recent trend was also positive. The current annual estimate was +6.3% per year. Both updated estimates clearly supported increases.

The updated national distribution range size was estimated at 1,288,289 km². State of India’s Birds treats the species as a resident associated with forest and plantation habitats.

The interim release updated numerical range and trend estimates for 942 species using about 48 million eBird observations available through 31 May 2025. The trend values describe change in a reporting-based abundance index rather than direct counts of individual birds.

Sources and image credit

  1. State of India’s Birds Partnership. (2026). State of India’s Birds: Range, trends, and conservation status – 2025 interim update (Version 2) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20036633

Image: Dr. Raju Kasambe — wild Alexandrine Parakeet photographed in Yavatmal district, Maharashtra, India, 25 October 2017; Wikimedia Commons; representative species image; cropped to 16:9 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

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