SIERRA PARAKEET
Bolborynchus aymara
di Enzo Patanè
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Italiano: Parrocchetto della sierra
Inglese: Lineolate Parakeet
Tedesco: Katarinasittich
Also this beautifulst representative of
the genus Bolborynchus remains a parakeet little diffused in
Italy; the breeding's pairs in our country are little even if
are true that recently the situation stà quickly improving.
After acclimatization it's sure a sturdy
and easy mantenibile subject that it does not need of adequate
cures andt olerate enough rigid temperatures also.
The sexual dimorphism, for against, is
not much marked because is possible characterize the sex in the
adult subjects only after a careful analysis. The male usually
has the head more blackish and the chest is more shining and tending
to the blue. In a generalized manner all the colors of the male
are bright.
Lenght: 18-20 centimeters
(in virtueof the long tail)
Distribuzione: Bolivia and Argentina
Natural diet: seeds, buds, fruit, berries and vegetal matter.
Feedings: mixture
of seeds for small parakeets with least small sunflower and much
canary seeds; fruit and verdure (carrot, pear, apple, maize, etc.);
proteico patè for the raise of chicks. I put to disposition
of the breeders a patè self made in added seed bubbled
and fruits.Cuttle bone (or blocks of mineral), grit and fresh
water always to disposition.
Allevamento in cattività:
Can be lodge in a cage of 150 x 50 x 40
supplied of branches of salice that create in an angle a small
natural habitat and that the subjects are amused to nibble, but
for the characteristics of great flyer the ideal housing is an
aviary of 3 meters high 2 meters and wide 70 cm.
The character of these parakeets is enough
shy and difficultly the subjects forgiveness their distrust.
Their sound is little fastidiously and,
indeed, it can even turn out melodyous.
They resist to minimal temperatures of
5°C, if they have the possibility to shelter itself in a nest
but they live better in a heats atmospheres during the winter.
The main reproduction begins in winter
and therefore the breeding atmospheres must very be illuminate
in order at least 14 hours.
They place from 4 to 6 eggs, intervals
of 24 hours and begin to incubate from second egg.
Incubation 24 days; the chicks are nourished
in the nest, from the female feed from the male, for four - six
weeks and the youngs that exit from the nest are normally independent
after one week - ten days from the first fly.
Nest :
In figure is reproduced a nest box that
personally I use. The planning it's at me. The nest tries to reproduce
the conditions of natural reproduction.
I have not never tried to use more traditional
nests but of it I do not exclude the possible use.
