essentially less known as the current representatives of the type "Unzertrennliche" is (rose-black or Pfirsischköpfchen) the mountain-parrot also seeming to Africa in the Ethiopian highland.
it is somewhat bigger than the known types, about. 17 cm. The plumage is colored mainly green, only the male possesses a red forehead, through what the sexes, which are not possible with many parrots unfortunately, let themselves distinguish well. The beak is deep-red.
Mountain-parrots should be held preferably in an aviary, only there they can develop its curious and enchanting nature with diversified provision. For a room-attitude, squabs are to be preferred, they get used essentially faster to the presence of people and then show also its innate behavioral-repertoire while however, older animals can respond very reservedly until panic-stricken.
The aviary should not be equipped with too many branches, so that the birds more frequently must fly, otherwise they often are inclined to high-calorie offered standard-feed exactly with it to the obesity and with it to a shorter life expectancy. As diversified as possible food, a big-parakeet-feed with few sunflower seed, for it Kardisaat, much fruit and green-feed like Vogelmiere, way-Erich or dandelion becomes, if the animals are used at it once, just as gladly taken as half-ripe cobs (freeze well), elderberries or Hagebutten.
If one wants to breed with the animals, breeding-authorization with the responsible veterinarian-office applies!) if an offering of egg-feed and germ-feed is for the nutrition of the nestlings of advantage.
Prerequisite for a breeding is a harmonizing pair and the existence of a Nistkastens, with which the birds are not very choosy, beside the official breeding-authorization, it becomes as well as Naturstammnisthöhlen assumed also like ready Nistkästen.
The brood-duration (usually 3-4 eggs) amounts about. A harmonizing pair succeeds with 25 days and the Jungenaufzucht usually without problems. The boys fly out approximately after 7 weeks and are still looked after then approximately 3 weeks by the parents.
All together, the mountain-parrots are agreeable charges on the basis of its behavior, the low size and the relatively quiet tone-remarks. they are however only rare to find on the market, to the one because they don't forth-sting very much color-like, to the other, the price is in the relationship to the Rosenköpfchen and others inseparable clearly higher which nobody however please should tempt to it, to want to get themselves only one of these birds, they simply belong to the type Agapornis, the inseparable, and should at least like by the way all parrots and parakeets to second as well as. in the swarm, it is held.
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