Eight Best Parrot Species as Pets - Family - Pets

Parrots are among the most intelligent species of birds and this is the reason why more and more people are keeping parrots as pets. The world has more than 350 of known parrot species. Here is a brief introduction to the 8 parrot species most suitable to be kept as pets:

The African Grey Parrot

It is one of the best choices of people to keep as pets, because of their ability of mimic speech. This gives a chance to the people to show off unique characteristics of their parrot. But, it has always seen as a risk too because it is not sure that all of African grey Parrots keep the ability of the mimic speech.

Budgies

Budgies are other species which are very beautiful and lovely birds and pet lovers love to keep them as pets. The unique feature of this species is that they can be taught to speak and they can play with people because of their social nature and intelligence. Even though, their life span is of five to eight years but if people take very good care of them, they can live the life up to fifteen years.

Cockatiels

They are very small parrot breed which are very cheap and maintained with requiring very less care because of their size and nature. They are less aggressive with the life span of fifteen to twenty years.

ConuresConure is another species of parrot that you need to know. It has a long tail and a light body which can live a life of thirty five years. They have the capability to learn quickly and this way it becomes very easy to teach new tricks to them. So, they are famous for being kept as pets.

Lovebirds

Lovebird is another parrot species which is kept as pet and they are of very small size with beautiful articles. It is advisable to keep them in the pair as they are lovebirds and they will be close to each other rather than having closer to you.

Macaws

Macaws are one another famous parrot species. Macaws are the longest parrot species with the life of almost fifty years. Because of this, you have to give a commitment to Macaw, if you are planning to purchase it. Because, they are big in the size, they require big cage and space. They make more mess of the food and needs frequent care too.

Parakeet

Parakeet is one another specie of the parrots which can be kept as pet. Because of the fact that they have a long tail, they are bit conspicuous. Many people like to keep it as a pet because of their friendly nature.

Parrotlets

Let us also look at the Parrotlets which is another parrot species to keep as pets. They are small aggressive nature parrots that should be watched closely that they don't come out of the cage. They need some interaction with the human beings to stay loving. The life span of Parrotlets is up to twenty years.

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