Budgerigars are pleasant to children, do not bring trouble on leaving and please with a bright color. It is possible to choose the suitable pet, proceeding from information what he a sex, age and a coloring.
Instruction
1. Look to a bird in eyes, at young baby birds they black color. The adult bird in addition around a pupil has a white ring and there is no plumage.
2. Pay attention to color of a beak, at young parrots (up to 2 months) on it black dab. This mark disappears in process of growth of a bird. Sometimes, that it vanishes before the put term, but this exception is characteristic of parrots who have a light pen-type color. Adult parrots have straw-colored or green color of a beak.
3. Look what tail at the chosen individual: the bird is younger, the it is shorter. It reaches the maximum size by the time of growing of a parrot, that is by two months.
4. Look at plumage. At a 1.5-month-old baby bird feathers already grew to the maximum length therefore do not agree to buy a parrot of this age with insufficiently mature plumage. The accurate structure of the drawing on feathers, at young baby birds it more indistinct has to guard, by 2nd months gets a clear boundary.
5. Ask the seller to bring a parrot to you closer. It is necessary carefully to consider existence of a mask which is absent at young birds. Adult parrots have the accurate wavy drawing on the head which originates from a voskovitsa. To six-month age they have a mask, and the waviness is washed away and begins already from the upper bound of a mask.
6. Check ability of a parrot to fly. If the baby bird has less than a month, he will not be able to perform operation. Individuals are more senior than 40 days will be able will cope with flight without effort.
7. Estimate visually the sizes of a parrot, growth of the adult - not less than 18 cm. The color of a voskovitsa matters: blue with white rims around nostrils at young people, pale blue or white - at adults. At females, ready to reproduction, a voskovitsa brown or white-pink.