What type of birds eat fruit
I understand that parakeets eat certain fruits. Does that mean that other types of birds ( like bourke, finches) eat some fruits? Need info.
eternity7
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R U TALKING ABOUT WILD BIRDS OR PETS? I HEARD SOME WHERE (SORRY, DONT KNOW WHERE) THAT CERTIAN WILD BIRDS LIKE FRUIT. I PUT SOME OUT WITH SOME SUIT CAKES AND GOT NOTHING BUT TONS OF BEES. CHECK THE INTERNET. GOOD LUCK.
THOTSR
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All birds eat fruit & nuts & seeds. But the friut they eat depends on where they’re from.
kim
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Parakeets & Bourke. What type of fruit or nuts do they eat?
eternity7
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They’re like us, They choose what they prefer to eat & what they don’t prefer. My tiel favorites are apple & cashews. He occationally nibbles on something else but very rarely. You would be best to give him all kinds & see which ones he likes best.
kim
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Thanks, that helped.
eternity7
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Yes, they do choose what they like but you have to insist and continue offering the ones they don’t like so much to get them used to the variety (different fruits have different vitamins in them so you want them to eat as many different ones as you can). Sometimes they will eat something if you chop it or grate it instead of offering it in a piece. They eat apples (make sure you take the seeds out -they have a trace of arsenic), oranges, pears, bananas, very ripe plantains, grapes, strawberries, cherries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, cucumbers (peeled -the growers wax them before shipping), mangoes, papayas, grapes, all kinds of melons, pumpkins, squashes and zuchinnis, beets (grated raw or cooked), carrots (grated raw or cooked), potatoes, sweet potatoes and yams (all washed and cooked but not peeled -the vitamins are in the skin). They also need greens like romaine, green and red leaf, butter and boston lettuce, spinach, escarole, celery (sometimes they only eat it if it’s grated), dandelion greens, chicory, kale, bok choy, napa, broccoli, cauliflower, rapini (it’s also called broccoli-rape) and savoy cabbage. You can also give them corn on the cob or canned and cooked beans, cous-cous, sprouts and flowers like dandelions as long as the soil they grew on has not been exposed to chemical pesticides or fertilizers. Never give them avocados, iceberg lettuce, eggplants or any product that has white flour or white sugar. You can give them tomatoes but no tomato leaves. And once a week, you should give them 1/4 hard boiled egg (grated not whole or they will only eat the yolk). Always make sure the fruit is thoroughly washed (and peeled if necessary like bananas or oranges or such). Use distilled or purified water for their drink and bath. Be careful with the amount of nuts and seeds you offer, they tend to eat a lot of the more oily (fattening) ones and that’s not good for them. They also need vitamins (soluble powder is more stable than liquid and if you also give them pollen, better still), a calcium source (cuttlebone or oyster shell), grit and full spectrum lights so they can produce Vitamin D for calcium absorption. Keep the cage clean and scrub the perches once a week (they clean their beak on them and if they have poop on them they can get sick from it). You should also keep Ornacycline in your fridge in case of upper respiratory infection or diarrhea.
Birds have a lot of special needs which most people are not aware of, you should buy yourself a good book on them to help you out.
Good luck!
Bibi
