Cooked beans and pulses, boiled corn; sunflower, dry, soaked or sprouted; fruit, especially apple, orange, banana, rearing food made from: hard-boiled egg, wholegrain bread, and carrot, all ground to crumbly consistency; fresh vegetables, complete pellet.
Enrichment:
Bathing; foot toys, destructible (non-toxic) toys, non-destructible (non-toxic plastic) toys, food-finder toys, preening toys, different texture and size hanging perch toys, fir, pine, elder or willow branches, push-and-pull toys (sliding up and down), vegetable tanned leather toys.
P.c. cryptoxanthus: Both adults small, mainly green parrots with grey/brown head; bright yellow underwings. Blue/grey upper mandible, tan lower. Bare cere and eye ring dark brown/grey. Eye yellow. P.c. tanganyikae: As in cryptoxanthus but paler; more green and less brown. Mantle greener and underparts brighter.
Colour Juvenile:
As in adult but duller with brown eye.
Call:
Flight call loud strident notes rising in pitch with each following note. Also high pitched staccato notes. Feeding accompanied by soft chattering.
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