Unfortunately, there is no easy answer to this question. You must really start outside by asking for which kind of owner of parrot would make you? Some species of parrot can live 70 years or more. It is an interlocking of the life unless you buy an older bird. The birds of the family of the parrot are the social animals. They need company to thrive. Can you spend a certain hour with a parrot two or three times by day?

The budgerigar is good choice for your kids. Those have several of the characteristics of the larger parrots, such as a personality and a formation but is very hard for them to able to speech.

Cockatiels are good choice for the limited budget. Although some cockatiels speaks less than some other species.

The parrots of the Amazon can also make good pets living 20 years roughly or more. The diets for the Amazon must be changed more and should include the vegetable abundance. Not as talkative as the African gray, these parrots put out of motionless box develop a good vocabulary.

Blue and gold Macaws, or the majority of another Macaws also interest to consider. They have the beautiful plumage and, usually, a ripe personality.

The gray African are intelligent and will take a great vocabulary quickly. They are the long-lived birds, often reaching 60 years or more. They are the very popular parrots because of their remarkable qualifications and intelligence of imitation. Although each one individual can changes, it is common so that they have vocabularies of several hundreds of words. They resound of will often exactly as a their owner while speaking who is an experiment of weakening.

Take your time to make the decision and to ask several other owners on the parrot on their experiments with particular species. You can also want to see whether there is a local company of the delivery of the parrot close to you. They will give you orange of the council the needs for particular species and you have even a suitable parrot which it is necessary that you adopt at the cost much low than buying a young bird.

The studies with the captive birds gave us knowledge in which parrots are most intelligent. While the parrots are able to imitate the human speech, the studies with the parrot of African gray proved that some can associate words their significances and simple sentences of form. With crows and corbels (Corvidae family), of the parrots are considered most intelligent of the birds. Consider with the ratio of brain and body size of the psittacines and the corvines is really comparable with that of higher primates.


An argument against the intelligent possibilities supposed of the species of bird is that the birds have a relatively small cerebral cortex, which is the part of the brain considered as the principal field of intelligence in other animals. However, it seems that the birds employ a part different from their brain, ventral the medio-rostral of neostriatum/hyperstriatum, like sits of their intelligence. Not surprisingly, research proved that these species tend to have largest hyperstriata and the lower part of avian brains are similar to ours. At the program of animal planet "majority of the extreme animals: Smartest ", the parrots were #1 ranked as the smartest animals of the world. Not only the parrots showed the intelligence by the scientific test of their language by using capacities, but some species of parrot such as Kea are also strongly skilful to use tools and to solve puzzles.

The parrots or Psittacines is an order (in particular Psittaciformes) birds which includes approximately 353 species. They are usually grouped in two families: Cacatuidae (cockatoo), and Psittacidae (true parrots). All the members of the order have a curved form characteristic of beak. All the parrots are zygodactyl, with two toes in front of each foot and two at the bottom. Parrots can be found in the majority of the hot areas of the world, including India, of the Southeast Asia and Western Africa. The Caroline Parakeet, now extinct, inhabited in the United States. The largest number by far of species of parrot come from Autralasie, South America, and Central America.