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“Hi my name is Sarah and I’m coming to you from Petland in Pinborough Pines, Florida today and on behalf of expertvillage.com, I am going to speak with you today about how to buy a pet bird.

One of the things to consider when you are thinking about bringing a bird into your household is the life span of that bird. Some of the larger parrots can live up to 50 to 60 years so it is very important that you understand that when you decide to purchase or adopt a bird.

Some of the smaller birds can even live 10 to 15 years so once again it is very important that you understand birds don’t just live 5 to 10 years. They have much longer life spans than most people anticipate.

One thing that some people are not prepared for when purchasing or adopting a new bird is the noise factor. Some bird species can be extremely noisy such as the blue and gold macaw behind me here. Other even smaller birds such as conures and quakers even with their small size can be extremely noisy birds. You really should do some research when considering getting a bird to find the right bird for you when it comes to the noise factor.

You should however understand that no matter what species of bird you get, they do tend to have periods where they vocalize quite a bit usually during the dawn and dusk hours. Vocalizing is one way that birds just burn off extra energy and you have to be prepared to have that noise factor in your house.

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This video talks about how to feed a parrot, the video is a little drawn out but contains a lot of good information. The automatic feeder that she shows looks like a very good quality feeder, I will be trying to find this feeder on the market. I have used a smaller version for my breeding parakeets and the ability of the feeder to catch the discarded seeds and hulls really helps keep the bird room clean.

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Video Transcript

“This is an automatic feeder. It gives you the opportunity to give the bird quite a lot of food at one time. The food goes in this side, they eat from this area, and their leftovers come here, so it makes for a nice cleanup.

Parrots need their nutrition, and you should really examine what nutrition each of your types of parrots need. They are very different in some aspects and very similar in others. Most birds do like the millet, and even large birds that most people think do not like millet, they do.

I’m a strong advocate on the pellet diet. I am because the pellets give the bird all the nutrition they need. They can’t go in and pick out the candy and leave all the vegetables. There are several types of pellets. This is a fruit blend type pellet. And then there is a natural pellet that doesn’t have any food color to it. Both kinds are very good for the birds. My birds seem to appreciate the fruit smell and so forth, and eat on it very well. Also, the pellets come in different sizes. You need the right size pellets, and the right, like I said, diet for each bird. Of course a finch or a parakeet would not eat the same size pellet that a Macaw or a Cockatoo would eat. So, we have different size pellets and different styles of food.

The seed diet, here, is basically for Cockatiels. It is a lot of seed. I have some pellets in it, because I want to get the bird switched to pellets, and, but even then, I want my birds to have some seed, because that is their natural way to eat, is to eat from seed.

Birds need fresh fruit and fresh vegetables. When you can’t get the fresh vegetables, then get frozen. Canned vegetables have additives of salt and preservatives, and so forth, that your bird does not need. But the frozen kind will be sufficient. They need apples, pears, seedless grapes, and different fruits. They seem to love bananas. These can also be dried fruit, so that you can get the fruit all year round. But your bird does need the difference of the fresh fruits and vegetables, and so forth. They also seem to love pasta extremely well, and rice.”

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Different Species of Parrot

Hi my name is Madeline Franco and I am here to talk about birds, specifically parrots and more specifically than that different species of parrots. There are well over 300 different species of parrots in the world. Some are called old world parrots which hale from Africa, Australia, and points west of the United States and others are new world parrots primarily from South and Central America.

Many of the parrots from old word are called cockatoos and you’ve seen them I’m sure. They are white in color, many of them, some of them are black and some of them are pink. The pink ones are even known as white cockatoos because anything other than black seems to be white. The South American birds and Central American birds tend to be rather colorful. The African parrots by in large a lot of them are fairly dull in color such as the African Grey and the Vosa parrot. Many of these are suitable as pets and a lot of them are found in our culture.

This over here is a Caique. This is Kiki. She is a Caique. They are from South America. She is a small parrot, very suitable as a pet. She lives to play and plays to live and a very companionable little bird.

These are old world parrots from the Solomon Islands primarily Indonesia and this is the male of the Eclectus parrot and that is the female. These are dimorphic.

Other birds, the typical parrot is a, the typical parrot that you see with the long tail is from South American primarily and Central America and they are Macaws.

This here is a parrot that at one time was indigenous to the Western United States. They are having a hard time surviving there though because of the predator population. They are found in the Sierras of Mexico and it is called a thick billed parrot. You cannot buy one of these. This one was given to me as a gift because I do presentations at schools and a friend of mine gave me this bird. It is a wonderful little bird but again they are not available in aviculture because they are restricted. Many of the parrots that we see today are endangered in their environment, their natural environments but they are bred widely in aviculture and in many instances aviculture is help keeping those species alive. Several of them have actually dwindled to frightening numbers in their natural environment due to deforestation and I guess you would call it encroachment by man.

But hopefully we’ve got some good conservation programs going and many of them will increase in numbers. We have had great success with the Blue Throated Macaw and some of the other birds that used to be and still are quite endangered but they are coming around. If you are considering getting a parrot, I would suggest that you get a book or do a lot of studying before you make that decision. It is a big decision to have a bird as a pet, a parrot as a pet. They are long lived. It is not uncommon for them to live 30 to 50 years in captivity so they are a lot of fun. They are very intelligent, long lived and they make great pets but it is a major responsibility when you decide to have one.

Hopefully you enjoyed the video.

When I end up in a new town, I love to stop at the local pet shop to see if they have any different parrots that I haven’t seen yet. I also check the local newspapers and shopper guides to see if there are any parrot breeders in the area. If I have some extra time on the trip I may plan a stop at a near by breeder or pet shop listed in a magazine like “Cage Bird Magazine” especially focusing on establishments the may have rare or different parrots.

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As I look around the web trying to find more information about parrots, I will include the good stuff that I find when I have permission to share.

The following is a video that I know you will enjoy. You can read a transcript of the video if you scroll below the video.

About Parakeets

Hi, today we’re talking about Budgies and what they are, or parakeets. Parakeets come from Australia and Asia, and there’s many different species of Parakeets. The most common in captivity are Budgies. But, there’s also Rosella parakeets, often times, Quaker parakeets, also known as Monk parakeets, and there’s Plum faced, Plum headed, which are from Asia.

So there’s a lot of different species out there. This is the most common one kept in captivity. They are from Australia, and are, all parakeets are parrots, so they’re Psittacinae’s, they have a hooked beak, they’re Omnivores and mostly eat grains. They all have two feet, two toes in front and two toes behind, and a lot of them will pick up food with their feet, except for the smallest ones. They have a long pointy tail and generally are very, very strong fliers.

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