One of the current issues for owners and future buyers of parrots is the age of the bird. Many do not even know how to correctly determine the age of parrots. It is believed that when buying a bird in a store, it is almost impossible to know its age, because in appearance many individuals have almost no differences, especially wavy parrots. In addition, not all salespeople say real age. In this article we will learn some nuances that can be useful when determining the age of a parrot.
Why is it important?
Many buyers of birds do not at all wonder why you need to know the age of the parrot. This is due to the fact that birds, which stay for a long time in the store, are usually kept on poor food without vitamins, side by side with other, possibly unhealthy birds, and the rooms themselves are practically not ventilated. As a result, the birds get sick, sometimes hidden. Therefore, acquiring an “old” parrot, you can simply acquire an unhealthy bird, to which you can very quickly become attached, but it will die, or it will be disturbed by very serious health problems.
The main thing is attention
In order for sure not to miscalculate with the age of the bird, let us consider what external featured it can be defined by being a non-professional.
- Professional ornithologists recommend paying attention when choosing a parrot on his head. In wavy parrots on it should be clearly visible contrasting "wolf". In young females and males, these stripes can be seen from the very beak to the bright head. The only exceptions are albinos who do not have such bands.
- And also you should carefully consider the eyes of the bird you like. They should be bright black with an iris. Usually these eyes say that the parrot no more than six months. In some individuals, the eyes may become lighter by about 10 months. But the bright and wide rims around the bird's pupil are one hundred percent certainty that you have an individual, which is clearly over 1 year old. Of course, there are exceptions associated with mutations, for example, red eyes in albinos. But such individuals are extremely rare.
- The age of the bird can also be determined by paying attention to the part of the head above the beak. Where the nostrils are. This place is called cemetery. So, in young wavy parrots, it should have a pale pink shade, cream, and sometimes bluish. It becomes darker at the moment when the parrots begin puberty, usually for this to take place on average six months. Here it is also necessary to take into account the moment that such changes in shade are mainly characteristic of females, for boys the pink-blue hue of the cinnamon remains longer. This is due to anatomical features.
- And also special attention should be paid to the spots on the throat of the bird.. The younger it is, the brighter and richer they are, and the older they are, the smoother and smoother the contour.
- Parrots, which are only a few months old, have rather dense scales on their paws. And because they also should pay attention. With age, these very scales become very noticeable and loose.
- And perhaps the very last criterion by which the age of a parrot can be determined can be attributed to its tail.. The tails of young females and males are rather short. But it is also not necessary to exclude that a bird can be an adult, it could simply have lost long feathers from its tail for other reasons.
Paying attention to all the above criteria and signs, you can most likely find out how much the young individual is offered by the seller. To distinguish a young parrot from an old one is in fact not so difficult.
But it should also be noted that the life span of a domestic parrot is usually 10 years, in rare cases 15. If you compare the age of a parrot by human standards, you should know that the 1.5-year-old parrot corresponds to the age of a 10-year-old child. To translate age you can pay attention to special tables.
To determine the age of the parrot Corell, you should also pay attention to the legs, they should be located pale pink scales.
And also, usually, young Corella chicks move and jump rather awkwardly, which in many respects may indicate that they have not completely adapted. The plumage of young birds is bright, but not yet abundant. In babies, black feathers on the head, which often lighten only by 10 months. A completely gray color in this type of parrot appears only after the first molt, that is, after half a year.
The age of lovebirds parrots can also be determined by the crooks, which should be darker in young birds. After 3 months it is already light.
Birds acquire bright green plumage in about six months, before that they have a grayish-green uneven color.
Summing up, it should be said that it is not necessary to recognize the age of a bird by just one indication, for example, specks on its head or by the shade of a waxberry. In order to guess the age as closely as possible, all the above signs should be considered comprehensively. In addition, it should be understood that not everyone can find out the age of a parrot by external signs, and therefore it is necessary to acquire birds only in well-recommended places where potential customers are not deceived.
How to determine the age of wavy parrot, see the following video.
