Parrotlet (Forpus coelestis)
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COLOR: Blue, Green, Yellow
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SIZE: small
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LIFESPAN: Up to 20 years
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SOUNDS: Vocal communicator
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INTERACTION: Social
| Reign | Animalia |
|---|---|
| Branch | Chordata |
| Sub-embr. | Vertebrata |
| Class | Aves |
| Order | Psittaciformes |
| Family | Psittacidae |
| Kind | Forpus |
Parrotlet Species
IUCN conservation status
LC: Least concern
CITES Status
The Forpus coelestis( Forpus coelestis ) is a species of bird belonging to the family of Psittacidae.
Parrotlet blue
What is a parrotlet
The Parrotlet has various local names. In America, the proper name would be “forpus parrot” indeed it is the smallest parrot in the world.Description
The Celestial parrotlet Forpus coelestis ) has green plumage, as does the Evergreen ( Forpus passerinus ), but there are other man-made mutations, including American yellow and turquoise blue.Parrotlet colors
- Parrotlet Green Pied
- Parrotlet American Yellow
- Parrotlet Green Marbled
- Parrotlet American Yellow Marbled
- Parrotlet American Yellow Fallow
- Parrotlet Blue
- Parrotlet Blue Pied
- Parrotlet American White
- Parrotlet Blue Marbled
- Parrotlet Blue Fallow
- Parrotlet American White Marbled
- Parrotlet Turquoise Pied
- Parrotlet American Turquoise
- Parrotlet Turquoise Marbled
- Parrotlet Turquoise Fallow
- Parrotlet American Turquoise Marbled
- Parrotlet American Turquoise Fallow
- Parrotlet Grey Green
- Parrotlet Grey Turquoise
Nesting
The female lays between 4 and 8 eggs which she incubates for 18 to 20 days. The young leave the nest around the age of 30 days. The father helps the mother to feed the chicks. The young will reach sexual maturity at the age of 1 year. If they mate too early, the female may die of exhaustion.
Longevity
This species can live between 10 and 15 years in captivity.
Parrotlet Care For Beginners | Topics
SOURCE:Flock-Talk
Parrotlet Habitat
Parrotlet Breeding
Parrotlet as pets
As long as separate cages are kept they can fly together outside of their respective homes. Budgies are the more easy-going and accepting, as long as you keep their cages separate there shouldn’t be an issue.Food
The daily food that a parrot eats includes a combination of inseparable elements:
- Extruded or granulated (balanced nutritional intake).
- Seed mixture (vitamins, minerals, and trace elements).
- Sprouted seeds (proteins, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, chlorophyll, and trace elements).
- Fruits and vegetables (provitamin A or beta-carotene).
- Plants and grasses (vitamin A).
- Mineral block or cuttlefish bone (calcium and iodine).
You can also occasionally provide whole, cooked cereals such as wheat, rice, spelled, barley, oats, canary seed, quinoa, millet, corn, rye, and buckwheat.
Parrotlet care
SOURCE:Pinchos the Parrotlet
Sharing experience of the breeding of Parrotlet Celestes
As a preamble it is important to remember that all living things are unique and that each bird has a personality and therefore a behavior of its own, nevertheless, we can try to define general rules that will correspond to the greatest number, but remember that there will always be individual behaviors that will deviate from generalities.
Choice and Preparation of Broodstock
My birds are in large community aviaries outside the breeding period, of course, it is forbidden to have nests or shelters that can be used to nest, otherwise, there is a risk of deadly fighting.
It is prudent to have several food points and one or more water points allowing birds to drink and bathe in what they love to do.
The celestial is a greedy bird so it is necessary to give it a varied diet and insufficient quantity but of course, without excess, the aviary, as the name suggests, must be large enough for them to fly and flee in case of quarrel, which happens. For my part, the aviary is 15 cubic meters for about twenty pairs and has many perches of branches and leaves to amuse the beaks. I am lucky to have a very large laurel sauce that allows me to feed the aviary all year round and in addition, it smells good.
Community Aviary Parrotlet Celeste
Good bird watching makes it possible to guess the characters of each bird which helps in the choice of broodstock.
Parrotlet colors
Community Aviary Parrotlet
There are many mutations that help in the formation of couples according to the project of each breeder. It is important to always have birds of wild hue, green, good size, and morphology that will be used to create your own strain and mutation carriers because it will be necessary to constantly go through this wild strain to keep beautiful birds in each mutation.