Amazon parrots: content, care, feeding

Parrots Amazons have a green color of plumage, with white, red, yellow, blue spots. Parrots Amazons are the size of a daw or crow (length from 25 cm to 45 cm), have a strong beak, medium-length wings and a short blunt tail. In captivity parrot Amazon can live 50-90 years.

Some species of Amazonian parrots breed well in captivity - they are best suited for home keeping. In particular, this blue-leaved amazon. But even those species that breed in captivity reluctantly or do not breed at all, are still in demand among parrot lovers. So, popular for captive captivity are yellow-headed, white-headed (Cuban), Venezuelan Amazons.

They fall into the cages of parrot lovers these birds fromwildlife. Truth in captivity takes root quite quickly, they become attached to a person. Amazons are popular because of their ability to "talk": remember and reproduce words, phrases, ambient sounds. Among the Amazons, the best "talkers" are the yellow-headed and the blue-headed.

Parrots Amazons really like to swim, therefore it is recommended to spray the parrot weekly with warm water from a spray gun. Cuts the wings of the Amazons in those cases if the bird has access to open spaces - in other cases such a procedure is not required. The beak and claws of a bird are filed as necessary.

Keep the Amazonian parrot in a spacious cage or aviary. The minimum cell size should be from 90 cm in height and from 60 cm in width. In the cage you can equip a "playground" - place in it branches of trees, swings, toys.

Clean the amazon cage should be daily, and once a week it is necessary to wash the contaminated areas of the cage, perches, toys. Also, water should be replaced daily in a fresh water bowl, and the remaining food removed from the cage. As the "gnawing" should be replaced in the cell perches, branches.

Feed the parrot of the Amazon should be prepared dry food, which is sold inshops, adding also in a diet of a bird vitamins, the germinated grains, fruit, berries. Many parrots of the Amazon also like to eat vegetables, besides, it is useful for them. Especially useful carrots - it contains provitamin A (carotene), which helps to fill the lack of vitamin A, characteristic of the Amazons.

You can not give the Amazons papaya, avocado - these fruits are toxic to the Amazons!

If the parrots of the Amazons are caught in the wild,then as a rule they get to pet stores or to bird markets already tamed: the local inhabitants of the Amazon, where these parrots live, catch the young at a young age, at home they are trained and tamed. Parrots born in captivity are also usually sold by hand.

Since the Amazon parrots are so popular for their "loquacity", then, of course, the important question is: how to teach the parrot of the Amazon to speak?

"Average" Amazons can easily remember 10-15 words, some individuals own vocabulary stocks in 80words and even use these words "to the place" - provided that they are properly trained. Badly trained birds can pronounce terribly loud and unpleasant sounds, so proper parrot training is also a pledge of silence in the house.

If you decide to have a parrot of the Amazon, you should remember that many of the species of Amazonian parrots are listed in the red book because of the threat of their disappearance! Catching, keeping, selling and importing such birds is prohibited by law!