Grey
Parrot, also recognized as “Congo Grey Parrot” or “African Grey Parrot” is an ‘old
world’ parrot in the “Psittacidae” family. Timneh parrot was formerly preserved
as conspecific but has since been divided as a complete breed.
Size and Weight
Grey
Parrot is a medium-sized, mostly grey, and black-billed. The normal weight is
0.88 lb (400 grams) with regular measurement of 33 cm (13 inches). The normal
wingspan length is 46 to 52 cm (18 to 20 inches). Whereas the average weight of
young birds is 0.922 lb to 1.160 lb (418 to 526 grams).
Lifespan
The average life of Grey Parrots in captivity is around 40 to 60 years, whereas, lifespan
in the wild is smaller as up to 23 years.
Appearance
Grey
Parrot has darker-grey color above the head and both wings, whereas the head and
body quills have a small white edge to them. The tail quills are red. Due to the collection
by parrot-breeders, some grey parrots are partially or totally red. Both genders
look similar. The coloration of adolescents is alike the adults, but the eyes
are naturally dark-grey to black, in contrast to yellow irises around the dark-eyes
of mature birds. The under-tail copses are also shaded with grey.
Distribution and Habitat
The
Grey Parrot is innate to equatorial Africa, comprising Angola, Cameroon, Congo,
Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda. The breed is usually seen from “Kenya”
to the eastern areas of “Ivory Coast”. The current measures for the worldwide
population are indeterminate and range from 0.63 to 13 million birds. Though
the inhabitants are reducing globally. The breed appears to favor thick
forests, but can also be found at forest edges and in extra open flora types.
A populace a study printed in 2015 found that the breed had been ‘almost diminished’ from
Ghana with numbers decreasing 90% to 99% since 1992. They were seen in only ten
of forty-two woody zones and three roosts that once held 700 to 1200 parrots
each now had only eighteen in total. The local residents mostly blamed the pet-trade.
The populace is considered to be constant in Cameroon, and in Congo, an expected
15,000 are taken each year for pet-trade, from the eastern zones of the
country. The yearly share is 5,000.
The
grey-parrot has fugitive or been intentionally unconfined into Florida, USA,
but there is no indication that the populace is obviously breeding.
Breeding
Grey
Parrots are exclusive breeders and they make their nests in tree holes. Each pair
of parrots desires its own tree to make a nest. The females lay three to five
eggs, which incubated after 30 days. The adult parrots protect their
nesting-sites. Both male and female help take care of their baby birds until
they grow up to a young bird. Grey Parrot chicks need feeding and attention
from their parents in the nest. The parents look after them up to 4 or 5 weeks
after they are fledged. The young birds leave their nests at after 12 weeks of
age. They weigh about 0.026 lb to 0.031 lb (12 to 14 grams) at birth and 0.820
to 1.160 lb (372 to 526 grams) when they vacate their nets and leave their
parents.
African Grey Parrot Diet
African
Grey Parrots are generally frugivorous; most of their food contains fruits,
nuts, and seeds. The breed desires oil-palm fruit and also eat flowers and tree-bark,
in addition to insects and snails. In the wild, the African Grey Parrot is partially
a ground feeder. In imprisonment, it can eat sunflower seeds, bird-pellets, a range
of fruits comprising pears, orange, pomegranate, apple, and banana, and
vegetables comprising carrots, cooked sweet potato, celery, fresh kale, peas,
and green beans. The African Grey Parrots also want to get some amount of calcium.
Relationship to Humans
African
Grey Parrot is commonly kept in the captivity and is frequently kept by the people
as a companion parrot, appreciated for its capability to mimic human language,
which makes the parrot one of the most famous avian pet. A fugitive pet in
Japan was returned to his possessor after reiterating the proprietor's name and
address.
African
Grey Parrots are infamous for mimicking noises everywhere in their environs and
using them untiringly. Although they are extremely brainy birds, they need enhancement
and attention in imprisonment or they can become upset; feather grasping is a
common indication. They may also be prone to social problems due to their subtle
nature.
Grey
Parrots are also very brainy, having been shown to do at the reasoning level of
a four to six years old youngster in some tasks. New tests have revealed that African
Grey Parrots can learn number orders and can speak human dialogues with those
humans' faces.
Mutations
Grey
alterations happen naturally in the wild, similar to the Blue Ino (Albino),
Incomplete-Ino, and Blue-varietals. The Blue-Ino is completely white. The
Incomplete Ino has bright coloring. The Blue-Ino has a white-tail.
The
breeders from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Scandinavia have greatly
bred Grey Parrots since the 1800s. These bred species comprise the Red Pied, F2
Pied, Grizzles, Ino, Incomplete, Parrino, Lutino, Cinnamon, and Red Factor.
South African bird breeder “Von Van Antwerpen” and New Zealand partner “Jaco
Bosman” selected F2 Pieds and produced the first “Red Factor Greys”. These
birds are infrequent, can be mostly red-colored, and the price depends on the degree
of red down parts shown.
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