Pellet diet specifically formulated for your Parrot is recommended in order to meet their recommended dietary nutrition. This also prevents the Parrot from becoming too picky. Enriched seed mixtures designed for your Parrot are also great as long as your Parrot isn't only eating his favorite seeds and discarding the rest. To supply calcium, your Parrot should have a Cuttlebone in it's cage at all times.

Although pellets can provide your bird with the ideal nutrition you should also be sure to include variety in your Parrot's diet. Giving your parrot a variety of foods will inspire them to eat. Parrots love fruits, nuts, beans, legumes, grains and vegetables(no avocado). You will enjoy seeing them flurry excitedly to their dish at each feeding time.

Your Parrot should have water readily available at all times.

Parrot droppings should be removed daily and the bottom of the Cage disinfected at least weekly.

Use Gravel Paper already cut to size and made especially for bird cages. This is the cleanest and easiest low maintenance way to go. It will absorb spilled water and droppings.

Once a month you'll want to disinfect the walls of the cage to protect your Parrot's health. The Water Dispenser and Feeder Bowl should be rinsed out daily and disinfected weekly. This helps protect against harmful bacteria. Cage Cleaners disinfect and dissolve hard dried-up droppings.

Trim your Parrot's nails and beak. Wing clipping is also recommended if you want to limit or eliminate the bird's flying abilities. If you do not feel comfortable trimming or clipping, an avian veterinarian or breeder will do it for a small fee.

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Parrots are known for being extremely intelligent. Your parrot's intelligence can rival that of a human child between the ages of 1 year and 4 years old! Parrot psychologists often claim that a parrot has the emotions of a 2 or 3 year old child. This means that they are both needy and independent. They are boisterous, playful, loving and also prone to fits and tantrums.

Parrots can talk. Nearly every bird will at least make some attempt to speak. They chatter, mock, squeak, beep, grumble, groan, growl and scream and at any opportunity. They need interaction, attention and toys they can destroy. Also, they need changing stimulation, so it is important to add new toys and change the cage setup.

If you can deal with the side effects than parrots make great pets. Parrots are charming, social, loving, intelligent, comical and devoted. However, they are also emotional, noisy, easily bored, destructive and messy.

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Parrots, also known as psittacines (pronounced /ˈsɪtəsaɪnz/), are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most warm and tropical regions. The order is subdivded in three families: the Psittacidae (true parrots), the Cacatuidae (cockatoos) and the Nestoridae. Parrots have a pan-tropical distribution with several species inhabiting the temperate Southern Hemisphere as well. The greatest diversity of parrots is found in South America and Australasia.

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