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The Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) is the perfect beginner’s bird, very hardy with modest needs and relatively simple to breed. When breeding them, it is best to keep them with their own kind, as they can sometimes be a menace to other breeding species, although, they are very sociable with few problems.
Most captive parrots eat seeds, usually as a significant proportion of the diet, unless they are fed on pellets. The main exceptions are lories, which evolved to exist mainly on nectar and pollen. While many parrot species are considered to be primarily seedeaters, most have a much wider diet in the wild.
When identifying and researching the nutritional needs of parrots it’s important to recognise that the foundation of this lies in observing what they have traditionally eaten in the wild. One of its values helps to identify and recognise the adaptations of nutritional requirements in many parrot species.