What are the species of parrots? What are the big parrots? What kind of food do you eat?

Parrots are also called parrot, parrot, is a parrot shape of many beautiful feathers, love to call birds. They are brightly colored and are often kept as pets. Parrots are very diverse, with 2 families, 82 genera, 358 species, one of the largest families of birds. It is mainly found in tropical forests. What species of parrot are there? What are the big parrots? What kind of food?

Parrots have a wide variety of species, different shapes and colorful feathers. It lives mainly in lowland tropical forests, but also flies to orchards, farmland and open grasslands. There are few parrot species distributed in mountainous areas, such as Papuan cockatoo, John's cockatoo, Chinese red-breasted parrot, etc. They usually mate and form small groups, perching on branches in forests, mainly nesting in tree holes.

Category 1: More than 100 cm

1. Purple and Blue Macaw (107 cm)

The purple-blue macaw, measuring more than one meter long, is the largest parrot in the world. It was once distributed in many countries in South America, but due to excessive hunting, its wild population is currently only found in Pantanal, Brazil, with an estimated number of more than 10,000. It was once the most expensive pet on the pet market, costing more than $10,000 each. The purple and blue macaw's feathers are pure blue, close to indigo. Their beaks are black, and yellow skin is exposed at the back of their lower beaks and around their eyes. Unlike other macaw species, purple and blue macaws do not have white, featherless skin around their eyes.

Food: Purple and blue macaws feed on certain types of palm fruit. Because palm fruit is hard, they eat the undigested seeds of cattle and sheep on grazing grounds because they become softer.

They also feed on fruit from certain large local fruit trees, both ripe and immature, berries and vegetables, which become a palatable addition to their diet.

Category II: 90 cm--99 cm

2. Scarlet Macaw (90 cm)

The scarlet macaw, also known as the multicolored macaw, is one of the most beautiful and largest parrots in tropical America. Its face is featherless and full of stripes, a bit like the colorful face in Beijing Opera. It can turn red when excited. The tail is extremely long and belongs to large climbing birds. The diet consists of many fruits and flowers, a large appetite, a powerful beak that pecks open nuts and sucks out pulp with a blunt tongue. It ranges from southern Mexico to South America and is the most widely distributed species of macaw.

Food: The main foods are fruits, palm nuts and seeds.

3. Red-green (green-winged) macaw (90 cm)

Green-winged macaws are also one of the more common macaws. In recent years, the number of wild birds has gradually declined. Hand-raised green-winged macaws love to be close to their owners. One of their characteristics is their large size. Like other large macaws, green-winged macaws have very loud and loud voices. However, if they are hand-raised birds raised from childhood, they will like to scream. If they want to raise pairs of adult birds, they should be kept in an open area with good soundproofing equipment or no neighbors. The friendly personality is one of the more suitable pet species for large macaws, but most environments in Taiwan are not suitable for pet birds.

Food: The diet consists of many fruits, flowers, and seeds. It eats a lot. Its powerful beak can peck open nuts and suck out the flesh with its blunt tongue.

Category III: 80 cm--89 cm

4. Warship Macaw (85 cm)

Native to tropical America, its Chinese name is the translation of its English name "Military Macaw." The origin of the English name is because the first batch of imported European parrots, mostly transported by military personnel, so this parrot is named Macaw. It is a large climbing bird. The diet consists of many fruits and flowers, a large appetite, a powerful beak that pecks open nuts and sucks out pulp with a blunt tongue. Tropical american nesting on cliff edges or trees. It is easy to accept human training and can get along well with other species of parrot, but it will also bite other animals and strangers. The maximum life span is 65 years.

Food: The diet consists of many fruits and flowers, a large appetite, a powerful beak that pecks open nuts and sucks out the flesh with a blunt tongue.

5. Glazed (blue and yellow) Macaw (85 cm)

Blue gold is the most common macaw, tail very long, is a large climbing bird. The diet consists of many fruits and flowers, a large appetite, a powerful beak that pecks open nuts and sucks out pulp with a blunt tongue. It is easy to accept human training and can get along well with other kinds of parrots. Its closeness to people makes this parrot especially popular. It has a gentle personality and can be seen in bird shops and zoos everywhere.

Food: Yellow-blue macaws in the wild mainly eat fruits, nuts, fruits, seeds, flowers, buds of various palm trees, as well as parasitic plants and insects. Every morning and evening, they eat soil from the riverbanks because most of their food is immature seeds or fruits containing toxins. Eating soil not only helps to expel these toxins, but also replenishes minerals and helps digestion.

Category IV: 70 cm--79 cm

6. Palm sunflower cockatoo (coconut macaw, black sunflower) parrot (70 cm)

Category 5:60 cm--69 cm

7. Burmese Large Species Alexander Parrot (60 cm)

Class VI: 50 cm--58 cm

8. Chaitton sunflower cockatoo (large sunflower) parrot (50cm)

9. Molucca sunflower cockatoo (red sunflower, ibis crest) parrot (52 cm)

10. Great red-breasted parrot (varies by subspecies, 50--55 cm)

11. Umbrella sunflower cockatoo (50 cm)

12. Blue-eyed sunflower cockatoo (50 cm)

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