What Joy The Yellow Headed Parrot Will Bring To Your Home
Copyright (c) 2010 Kaye Dennan
The Yellow Headed Parrot is a wonderful talker and this is one of the reasons that parrot owners desire their company. It is quite understandable why the Yellow Headed Amazon parrot is one of the most popular pet parrots. What many owners do not realise though is that in its very own natural environment it is a threatened species.
The reason that the Yellow Headed parrot is threatened in its natural environment is because of commercial developments. The forests are being cleared for development or the trees are being cut for timber. The rate that land in the coast regions of Mexico and further south where the parrot resides, is being cleared is astronomical when you think of the forest that is left. There are fortunately, some domestic yellow headed parrots that have escaped from captivity and are reproducing around the more tropical regions of America in the south and this is helping to keep numbers alive. Still, let's talk about the parrot itself.
The Yellow Headed parrot is very pretty with its bright green body and bright yellow head. There is a touch of bright red at the bend of its wing and also on the outer region. The flight feathers are tipped with a blue-black color and the longer tail feathers are bright yellow. A Yellow Headed parrot is usually quite easy to pick even though there are some slight variances in color.
Although the yellow parrot is well known for its talking abilities, we have to accept that although most will talk, there will be some that will not. If the parrot is healthy and happy they are a fun parrot to own and will give their owners great joy.
Taming a yellow parrot.
The Yellow Headed parrot has a lovely nature and is very easy to tame and train to talking and to do tricks. They need repetitive actions to be able to learn to talk and to do their tricks but they learn easily and remember well.
Toys in their cage.
As these parrots are extremely active, it is best to make sure that there are plenty of toys in their cage or aviary and some are swinging toys so that they can play with them when left on their own. Toys hanging on strings entertain parrots for hours.
Another feature for their cage is to have several rough branches in there so that they can chew on those as they love to do this if they are a bit bored.
Size of the yellow parrot.
A full grown Yellow Headed parrot will reach about 15 inches which is a good size for an parrot in the medium size range. At this size the parrot is easy to handle, easy to house and does not do too much damage as it flies around the house.
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