Psittacines are found throughout most of the world. You will be able to differentiate these birds from the rest of the subspecies by their characteristic beaks, as they are very curved; his fingers, two anterior and two posterior; their magnificent and showy colors, and their thick and fleshy tongues that serve to imitate our words and the sounds they hear.
Although they are included in the same group, parrots can be very different from each other in terms of size. They can vary between 10 centimeters for the pygmy parrot to 100 centimeters for the hyacinth macaw.
We will have to provide them with specialized food for each species, always checking with the expert bird veterinarian that our feathery colleague is receiving the nutrients he needs to maintain his good health and energy, a wrong diet can lead to disease , malnutrition and even cause death.
So it is not surprising that they need different types of food for good health. Below we detail the food products that you can give your psittacine birds depending on the subspecies to which it belongs.
The macaw
The ideal foods for this parrot are:
– Seeds of sunflower, corn, wheat, sorghum …
– Walnuts, almonds, pine nuts, peanuts …
– Orange, banana, apple, pineapple, pear, avocado, papaya, peach … Fruits can be drizzled with honey.
– Lettuce, cabbage, chard …
– Young corn on the cob, carrot …
– Crumbled eggshell.
The cockatoo eats, among other things, corn on the cob, oats and grapes
This bird will need the nutrients of:
– Sunflower seeds, wheat, oats …
– Walnuts, peanuts, almonds, pine nuts, hemp seeds, hazelnuts …
– Pear, banana, pineapple, cherries, orange, apple, pear, grape … Again the fruits can be sprinkled with honey and create fresh skewers with them.
– Fresh corn on the cob, carrot …
– Chard, spinach …
– Cuttlefish bone.
The amazon parrot
These green friends are going to taste:
– Birdseed, hempseed, millet …
– Melon seeds, pumpkin seeds …
– Seeds of corn, sunflower, sorghum, oats …
– Peanuts, pine nuts, almonds …
– Apple, orange, banana, pineapple, pear … Fruits can be drizzled with honey.
– Fresh corn on the cob, carrot.
– Spinach, chard, lettuce …
– Cuttlefish bone.
– Rice, chickpeas, lentils or wheat cooked with a pinch of salt.
The yaco or gray parrot
The food of this parrot is going to be:
– Sunflower, melon and pumpkin seeds.
– Corn on the cob.
– Banana, orange, apple, pear, grape, pineapple, peach …
– Spinach, chard …
– Walnuts, peanuts, birdseed, millet, hempseed …
– Bread.
– Cuttlefish bone.
– Cornstarch.
The common parakeet
We are going to have to give this popular bird:
– Mixture of birdseed, millet, red millet, oats …
– Lettuce, cabbage, spinach …
– Wholemeal bread.
– Cuttlefish bone, “grit” and lime for parakeets.
Nymph
These birds feed on:
– Birdseed, millet, oats …
– Chard, spinach, lettuce …
– Apple pear…
– Wholemeal bread.
– Cuttlefish bone, mineral blocks …
– Breeding cake for canaries or ground “Maria” cookies.
The lovebird
The lovebird diet will be based on:
– Birdseed, millet, oats, sorghum …
– Sunflower seed.
– Spinach, chard, cabbage, lettuce, endive …
– Cuttlefish bone, mineral blocks, “grit”, etc.
– Wholemeal bread.
Don’t miss the bird feeding video below!
