THE BLUE-CROWN
HANGING-PARROT
Loriculus galgulus
di Enzo Patanè
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- Italiano: Loricolo dalla corona blu
Inglish: Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot
- Germany: Blaukroenchen
Without doubt this hanging is the most
known and diffused between the representatives of the proper kind
in how much it still comes largely been of importance and it is
available of capture to an approachable price. Unfortunately this
beautiful representative of the kind loriculus remains a parrot
a little raised in Italy while in the Benelux the reproducing
couples increase rapidly.
Hardly been of importance the subjects they also are not very
strong because of the lack of suitable cares give him from the
importers and from the merchants that they are confined to to
give apple and little nectar (when understands) but once acclimatized
and well taken care of it proves an enough strong subject.
The sexual dimorfism is very marked in how much only the male
show the red breast and the yellow on the shoulders it is very
more intense than in the female.
Attention however because normally the of importance subjects
are young and they show to the livery of the female, while they
will assume the definitive livery only to a year and half - two
years and that is to sexual maturity.
Is necessary to remark that elderly female can show the red on
the breast but the colors they are however all less bright ones
some males.
Lenght: 12 centimeters
Distribution: South of Thailand, Malesia, Singapore, Borneo,
Sumatra and Indonesia's island.
Natural diet: nectar, fruit, buds, flowers, seeds and, probably,
also bugs.
Natural breeding: the period of breeding has gone since January
to July; the female transports pieces of leaves in the feathers
of the back inside the nest like lovebirds.
Feeding: Mainly frugivoris
need big quantities of fruit to renew daily; to avoid to furnish
alone apple to him because for a long time to go they provoke
vitaminic problems.
Personally I nourish my couples with a
fruit salad of united mixed fruit to boiled carrots, vegetables
of season (cauliflower, zucchini, peas, onion, fagiolini, etc)
the all reduced to small pieces to which I unit some boiled rice.
Apart every day I furnish 150 ccs of nectar for lori and a mixture
of seeds for small parrots without sunflower.
Weekly I furnish some tenebrio molitor.
Breeding: My couples
are lodged in the cages of 100 x 50 x 50 provisions of jaws of
willow that create in an angle a small natural habitat and that
the subjects are enjoyed to nibble. The cage necessity of frequent
cleaning (also the roosts) because of the type of feeding and
of I made for them very liquid punishment lethal infections.
English call the loricolis hanging-parrots and a name used in
Italy it is pendolini, for the peculiar habit to this kind to
rest suspended to head in down.
For this reason it is necessary to avoid cages with closed roofs
(the walls instead noltos go well provided that washable) and
to prefer roofs of net so that to avoid to submit to useless stresses
the subjects.
The cararattere of these parrots is very sweet and in the time
they become very confiding, their verse is a little annoying and,
can result even rather melodious.
They withstand to least temperatures of 15°C, but they live
better in heated environments at least to 20°C during the
winter.
The principal reproduction starts in December-January and therefore
the environments of breeding must be well illuminated for at least
14 hours a day.
They depose from 2 to 4 eggs, to intervals of 24 hours and they
begin to incubate from the second egg.
Incubation 18-21 days; the chicks is fed in the nest, from the
female fed by the male, for four - six weeks and the youngs that
go out from the nest are normally independent after two weeks
from I steal him.
Nest :
The figure reproduced a nest box that personally
use. Really they don't need particular nests and they are also
been reproduced in horizontal nests from lovebirds.
