Swift Parakeet (Lathamus discolor) (Pair)

Common Name: Swift Parakeet
Scientific Name: Lathamus discolor
Background: Pair Available
Origin: Australia & Europe
Description: Small Australian birds with a brush tongue, related to the Lorikeets. Lively parrot. Has quiet, melodious voice. May be kept with smaller softbills. Not as susceptible to stress and disease as other parrots. Becomes fairly quickly accustomed to new keeper.
Requirements:Very active parrot so provide space and lots of branches, swings, ropes, different sized perches and ladders for climbing. Also provide lots of unsprayed, birdsafe flowering branches. Also enjoys bathing so provide overhead misters or shallow water bowls. Can be housed with others of its own species and other birds. Also provide foraging/puzzle toys and wooden and vegetable tanned leather chewable toys.
Size: Up to 10 Inches
Life Span: Up to 15 Years
Suitability: INTERMEDIATE
Diet:  Limited small seed mix such as: canary, oats, safflower and a little hemp; spray millet; limited sunflower seed, dry, soaked or sprouted; sprouted pulses such as mung beans, cooked butterbeans and lentils; boiled maize; green leaves such as: Swiss chard, lettuce, sowthistle, dandelion, chickweed; vegetables such as: corn, carrot, celery, zucchini and other squash, green beans and peas in the pod; fruit such as: apple, pear, orange, cactus fruit, banana, pomegranate; nuts such as: lightly cracked hazelnuts, pecans and roasted peanuts; nectar daily soaked in sponge cake or wholegrain bread.