Everything You Need to Know About Keeping Parrots

The phrase ‘pet parrot’ covers a lot of ground, from sparrow-sized Parrotlets to Cockatoos the measurement of a small goose. There are easy-to-keep species such as the Cockatiel, challenging characters like the Macaws, and all factorsinbetween.

Cocktail and Fischer Lovebirds - popular birds worldwide

With smaller parrots, your major issues will be those of the commonplacehen keeper - making certain none of them are bullied, giving them loads of space and appropriate food, and possibly hand-taming them to make the entire pet-keeping experience extra pleasurable. With some of the largerbirds, however, you’ll additionally be dealing with an animal whose talenthas been compared to that of a five-year-old child.

That’s one of the genuinely super things about parrots. Along with sureparticipants of the crow family, some of them can provide dolphins and wonderful apes a run for their cash when it comes to intelligence.

What this massive vary of sizes and intellects ability is that there’s a parrot to swimsuit all homes. This information looks in detail at the necessities of the most famous species, however additionally acts as a information for all the parrot species saved as pets.

All Parrots Great and Small..

We’ve categorized the birds in 4 agencies based on size. This is useful when talking in phrases of space requirements.

Rainbow Loriket

Although long, the following lists (covering small, medium-sized, massive and extra giant parrots) are a long way from exhaustive. All the birds cited here are popular as pets in Europe, North America, Australia and elsewhere, and all are without difficulty accessible to would-be owners.

Note, however, that species such as the African Grey, in spite of thriving populations in zoos and aviaries round the world, are endangered in the wild, and you will want a license to maintain them. (See Parrots on the CITES List, in the Choosing a Parrot part of this guide).

Small Parrots...

Different varieties of Lovebird

• Lovebirds

Fischer’s (Agapornis fischeri)
Masked (Yellow-collared, Eye-ring) (Agapornis personatus)
Peach-Faced (Rosy-faced, Rosy-collared) (Agapornis roseicollis)

• Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) - the budgie is the most popularcagebird in the world, and has its own Omlet Budgie Guide

Bourke’s Parrot ..

Bourke's Parakeet

Lineolated (Barred, Catherine) Parrotlet (Bolborhynchus lineola)
Blue-winged Parrotlet (Forpus xanthopterygius)
Green-rumped Parrotlet (Forpus passerinus)
Pacific (Celestial, Lesson’s) Parrotlet (Forpus coelestis)
Yellow-faced Parrotlet (Forpus xanthops)

Pacific Parrotlet

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