African grey parrot

Of the African parrot is best known for her intelligence and vocabulary needs of the African gray parrot. There are actually two subspecies of African Grey, Congo African Grey Timneh African Grey parrot. Visually, you can keep 2 varieties apart as the Congo African Grey is light gray with a red tail, while the Timneh African Grey, a dark gray color and has more of a russet-colored tail.

The African Grey is in the central parts of Africa and is home to the Congo, Zaire, Cameroon and Uganda, with smaller quantities of birds, which spread from neighboring countries such as Kenya, Tanzania and Angola. Because of the general economic climate in that part of the world, estimated that over 20% of the natural population of these parrots are recorded each year for sale mainly in PET-commerce and as such have been put forward on bird flu conservation status of "near" threatened, which is one class away from them to a protected species.

The prices can vary greatly depending on a number of reasons, such as the age of the parrot if it is certified and were purchasing the parrot, but the guidelines that you should expect from 150 to over $ 1,000 raise in pay-Congo African variety seemingly more money than the Timneh. This is a strange situation as a Timneh is in no way inferior to the Congo in addition to the slightly smaller and has a different color, but both have the ability to mimic sounds and talk, in fact, an extensive vocabulary. But what is surprising is that both types of African Greys, they are reared by hand they are usually better established domestic birds, caught in the wild, since these birds are nervous in general be of the people and show them in their behavior, and aggressive sometimes stifle growl.

Although these parrots make excellent pets because of their intelligence and ability to speak does not mean they are easy to keep a pet. First Live: As with most medium to large parrots African Grey can be up to 60 years and beyond, so that they are a big business for their owners and owners of the family. They also need a reasonable amount of interaction each day and it is recommended that you take the parrot out of cage at least an hour every day and sometimes a longer period of up to 3 hours to keep your parrot happy and healthy.

I would just detail some of the other requirements that you need to succeed in an African gray parrot kept as pets, such as proper nutrition, bird cage, lamps and toys etc, but I needed to have a little story, and their price range and a task the commitment to self, which is an amazing parrot and an amazing animal.