Aviary or suspended cage, minimum length 3m (9.8 ft).
Diet:
Cooked beans and pulses, boiled corn, sunflower seed – dry, soaked or sprouted but limited; fruit such as: apple, orange, banana, pomegranate, pear; rearing food (hard boiled egg, wholegrain bread and carrot); vegetables such as: carrot, celery, green beans and peas in the pod; spray millet; complete kibble.
Enrichment:
Provide overhead misters or shallow water bowls for 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. Introduce with care, as Greys are sensitive to novel things.
Both adults grey in colour with grey/white scalloping to feathers; flight feathers darker grey; red tail and lower undertail coverts. Bill black. Eye grey.
Colour Juvenile:
As in adults but with grey tinged lower undertail coverts; tail tipped with red. Eye dark grey to black.
Call:
Variety of whistles, squawks, shrieks, and screams given at rest and in flight; mimics other birds, and mammals.
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