Price of pink cockatoo

Pink cockatoo is one of the most widely distributed parrots in Australia. Its beautiful pink plumage is very charming. It likes to inhabit forest areas, grasslands, semi-arid areas, including pastoral areas and parks. With grass seeds, grass plants, cereals, fruits, grass roots, insects and their larvae as food, let's take a look at the market price of pink cockatoos.

Market price of pink cockatoo

Pink cockatoos are regarded as agricultural pest birds in many areas, but the prices of pink cockatoos legally imported outside Australia have always been not low. Hand-raised birds are very smart and playful. Even wild birds become friendly and tame after being caught and reared. Raising them requires more attention and care for them and provides a variety of toys to avoid ploughing caused by boredom. In addition, its sound is terrible and likes to scream sooner or later. For this reason, there are very few people raising pink cockatoos in China, so there is no market reference price.

Life habits of pink cockatoo

Pink cockatoos usually gather in loose groups, sometimes in large groups of nearly a thousand in some pastures, screaming sharply and hoarsely, and often act together with big sunflower cockatoos. Omnivores consume a variety of plant seeds, such as oats, wheat, or many grasses. In addition, they ingest the seeds of insects and their larvae, berries, buds, flowers and eucalyptus. There are many ways to drink water, either standing in the mud of the pond and swallowing water in flight, or landing in the middle of the pond and soaking your beak in the water. Likes to look for food on the ground. It is especially fond of foraging in cereal crops and sunflower fields cultivated by farmers, so it often causes a lot of damage to crops.

Breeding habits of pink cockatoo

Pink cockatoos breed from July to December in southern Australia, February to June in the north, and rainfall in central Australia. If there is enough food and the climate is moderate, you can reproduce twice a year. Nests are usually built in holes in eucalyptus trees 2 to 20 meters above the ground, and the entrance of the nest is covered with bark. It can lay 2-6 eggs at a time, and the hatching period is about 25 days. The chicks can grow feathers at 7 or 8 weeks. There are records of crossing with Mitchell's cockatoos and long-billed cockatoos in the wild.

Breeding method of pink cockatoo

When the pink cockatoo uses wooden nails to make the nest box in captivity, it breeds from April to August every year. The nest box had better be replaced by a hole of 20 cm in diameter with a big tree trunk. The size of the nest is 40 cm long, 25 cm wide and 25 cm high. Iron sheets should be nailed to the corners and holes of the nest to prevent them from gnawing out the nest box. Shavings or coarse sawdust not less than 3 cm thick are provided in the nest. During the breeding and hatching of breeding birds, we should pay attention to the stability of the environment, minimize external interference and avoid shock. So as not to disturb the parent birds and abandon the nest, affecting the hatching and brooding. During the breeding period, you should add oyster powder or bone powder inorganic salt, provide a small amount of biscuits (or toast) every day, and feed hard-boiled eggs every day during brooding. During the breeding period in winter, the indoor temperature should be kept above 20 ℃, the relative humidity should be 45% to 50%, and indoor ventilation should be maintained. Drinking water should be changed frequently to keep it clean.