Pictures of pet parrot species

There are many kinds of parrots, different shapes and colorful feathers, including magnificent and elegant purple-blue macaws, white sunflower cockatoos with yellow crowns, eloquent Amazon parrots, colorful rainbow honey-sucking parrots, small sunflower-like cockatoos, exquisite budgerigars and peony parrots. Let's take a look at a picture of pet parrots.

Budgerigar

Budgerigar is a bird of the parrot family of the parrot order, also known as Jiaofeng, is a small climbing bird species, native to the inland areas of Australia, wild budgerigars inhabit forest gardens, grasslands and so on. Group activities, feed on plant seeds, etc., with a breeding period of 6 ~ 1 months, nesting in tree holes, laying 4-8 eggs per litter, hatching for 18 days, lively and easy to domesticate, is one of the most common pet birds in China.

Macaw

Macaws, native to tropical America, are one of the most beautiful and largest parrots, with a total of 6 genera and 17 species. With opposite toe feet, each foot has 4 toes before and after 2 toes. It has a very long tail and is a large climbing bird. It is native to forests, especially the rainforests of Mexico and Central and South America. The diet consists of many fruits and flowers with a large appetite and a powerful beak that pecks open the nuts and sucks out the flesh with a blunt tongue. Build nests in trees and cliff caves on riverbanks. It is easier to be trained by humans and can get along well with other kinds of parrots, but it can also bite other animals and strangers and live for up to 70 to 80 years.

Agapornis fischeri

Peony parrot, also known as lover parrot, lovebird, etc., belongs to the parrot family of parrots. There are 9 species in China, which are more precious artificial breeding birds. the common species are glazed waist peony parrot (brown peony parrot), yellow collar black peony parrot (black peony parrot), red peony parrot (peach face yellow peony parrot), cherry peony parrot (peach face green peony parrot) and blue peony parrot and so on.

Xuan Phoenix parrot

The Xuan Phoenix parrot, also known as the cockatoo, is one of the most common medium-sized parrots in the world in Hong Kong and Taiwan. the wild population comes from Australia, and the large number of breeding makes the Xuan Phoenix parrot quite common. The young birds are very lively and like to be close to their owners. There are many varieties, the more common are gray, white, pearl and other varieties, the total number of more than 1 million in the world, and the number continues to grow, its population is very stable and safe.

Monk parrot

The monk parrot is a typical climbing bird with a strong beak, curved beak, movable joints in the upper jaw and wax film at the base of the beak. Muscular and thick tongue. Short feet, strong, opposite toe type, two toes forward and two toes backward, suitable for grasping and climbing life. The female is 10-20% smaller than the male. The upper body is bright green, the forehead and chest are light gray, the abdomen is greenish yellow, and the chicks grow up late. It mainly lives in dry open woodland below 1000 meters above sea level, savanna with thorn bushes and cactus, palm forest, agricultural farming area and so on. Food includes all kinds of grasses, seeds, buds and flowers of trees and other plants, as well as fruits and berries, and occasionally eats insects.