African Grey Parrot Diet

For many many years a diet of a basic mixture of sunflower seeds, peanuts and some chilli peppers has been considered an adequate basis for the diet of African Greys. We now know it is a completely wrong approach. In the wild, African Greys feed mainly on nuts, including red palm nuts, fruit and leafy [...]

10 Toxic Foods For Parrots

Because parrots are such social creatures, many owners allow their pets to be included at mealtime. While sharing food with your parrot is a lot of fun – not to mention wonderful for your pet’s emotional health – there are many common human foods that can be harmful or even fatal to your parrot. Owners [...]

Parrots Learn Faster From Other Parrots

Anyone who has more than one parrot has learned pretty fast that parrots learn fastest from other parrots. Even when learning to talk, they learn best from listening to other parrots speak. I’ve learned both of these things from having a flock of birds compared to just one. Obviously, I had to start with just [...]

February 14, 2009 • Tags: , • Posted in: Other Parrots • No Comments

5 Super Foods For Your Parrot

African Grey Parrots like humans need a good healthy diet if they are to live to their potential lifespan of up to 70 years, you are what you eat as they say!!
So we thought we’d put together a list of five super foods that it is essential that you parrot gets in it’s diet if [...]