PACIFIC PARROTLET
Forpus Coelestis
di Enzo Patanè
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Italian: pappagalleto di Lesson
German: Blaugenick-Sperlingspapagei
Between the representatives of the sort
Forpus, without doubt, the most represented in the Italian breedings
it is the coelestis; original of the Atlantic coasts of the South
America it is between all the forpus sturdiest and adaptable and
that wich reproduced with greater facility.
The male is characterized from the eyebrow,
from the rumped and from primary- and secondary-coverts color
blue cobalt with shadings violet while the female is normally
all green, but some exemplary of the subspecies "lucida"
have the blue rumped and I point out of eyebrow; in these subjects
the only sign of reliable dimorfism is that only on the male the
primary -coverts are blue.
Lenght: 13 centimeters
Distribution: nord-ovest del Perù, Ecuador occidentale.
Habitat: dry tropical zones and in particular bush savann,
country and deciduous wooded land.
Natural diet: seeds, berry and cactus fruits.
Breeding in
nature: the period of breeding begins
after the season of rains, from January until the May end; practically
all the holes available are use you like nests, holes in the cactus,
coppers, the trees, the poles of the telephone, installations
on the giacimenti of oil, open extremity of the tubes, also the
old nests of the other birds.
Alimentation: seed
mix for small parakeets with little sunflower and much canary
seed; fruits and greenstuff (carrot, pear, apple, maize, ecc.);
proteic patè in order the chick's nourish.
Personally giveat the breeding's pairs
a patè made in house added of bubbled seed and fruits.
Cuttlebone (or nibble mineral), grit and
fresh water always to disposition.
Breeding in captivity:
By now very it stabilizes in captivity, birds born in captivity
breeding also in little cages of 50 x 40 x 40. In order to avoid
that the subjects fatten too much, it would have, ut, to lodge
them in cages of 70x 40x40, or to arrange them in aviary to outside
of the breeding period.
They are tendentially timid parakeets towards
the man but, with the time, they can succeed in to become confident
and they turn out much sturdy and resistant to the diseases.
Above all in the period of the reproduction,
they can become much aggressive in the comparisons of the companions
but they have the necessity of being in company in order to avoid
conditions of stresses that can carry also at the dead .
They resist to minimal temperatures of 10°C, but survive also
at inferior temperatures to the zero, if they have the possibility
to shelter itself in a nest.
The main reproduction begins in spring
but, if it lodges in atmospheres heats and very illuminates in
order at least 14 hours the day, they reproduce all the year.
They place from 4 to 10 eggs, usually 6
to intervals between 24 and 48 hours and begin to incubate from
the second egg.
Incubation 21 - 24 days; the chicks are
nourished in the nest, from the female feed from the male, for
four - six weeks and the young that exit from the nest are normally
independent after one week - ten days from the first fly.
To this point, he is advisable to separate
them from the parents who, otherwise, can hound and to bite them
until killing in order to begin one new brooded. Attention above
all to the young males who, outside from the nest, come little
gladly accepted from the father.
The young people are mature sexually around
to the 10 months a year, age to which they begin to riprodursi
regularly (the males some time are fecund already to four months)
but, normally, they only become good breeders to second life year.
Nest :
In figure is reproduced a nest that personally
I use. The "turned upside down L" is for fundamental
experience in order to avoid that the males to rush the inside
of the nest dropping on the female in brood or worse on eggs.
The dimensions of the nest they are to the center of various currents
of thought; some breeders prefer nests of smallest dimensions
(until 10x10 of base) and others use nests until 20x20 of base.
First they support that the forpus they
adopt nests more gladly than small dimensions, the others, of
which I I make part, use more generous dimensions in order to
avoid overcrowding, in case of brooded numerous (much frequent).
The only found disadvantage is the possibility,
above all in young subjects and inexpert, of dispersion of eggs
with difficulty of it broods.
FORPUS COELESTIS'S
COLORS MUTATIONS
Many mutations of color of the forpus coelestis
exist ; all the found mutations are recessive and nobody sex-tied.
It is believed that the coelestis they follow the model of mutation
of the ringneek parakeets.
SINGLE FACTOR MUTATIONS
BLUE
MUTATION
The blue mutation is probably the more spectacular
and fascinating. The blue coloration differs between subjects
and goes from a soft blue until the blue sky. In the males the
blue of the remiganti and the eyebrow assume colors intense cobalt.
This mutation has a particularly sweet personality is like pet
is with the others forpus.
LUTINO
MUTATION
The Lutino mutation is to times confused with the
yellow color American but the subjects lutino are only color of
yellow and the blue in the males is replaced from the white and
moreover they have the red eyes.
AMERICAN
YELLOW MUTATION
The yellow mutation American is a mutations in which
the subject t replaces the green with a yellow luminous lemon
maintaining unchanged the blue marcature and has been discovered
in the United States from Dr. Rainer Erhart.
PASTEL
MUTATION OR EUROPEAN YELLOW
Some times it comes confused with the yellow American
because some subjects so are diluted to have to only read soffusioni
of green but they are much more common in Europe of the other
of beyond the ocean and with the exception of this last the feathering
it is green to several dilution degrees.
FALLOW
MUTATION
In this mutation the green comes clearly replaced
from a green yellow and the beige. The eyes are red darkness and
the blue of the males assumes diluted tonality
ISABEL
MUTATION
The mutation isabel is one of first appeared in
Europe but it is not common how much probably more spectacular
others.
GREEN
OLVE MUTATION
The Forpus coelestis green olive is subject
in which the green deep olive has assumed a green tone while the
blue maintains its tonality. They are premonitory of the mutation
the cobalt.
PIED
MUTATION
They are subject in which the piumaggio
it has lost melanine producing wide yellow zones. Probably they
have had to the yellow connection American with ancestral subjects.
DOUBLE FACTOR MUTATIONS
The subjects of forpus coelestis to "double
factor" are birds that demand two geniuses of mutation color
in order to produce the color.
ALBINO
MUTATION
It's the combination of the blue mutation and that
lutina. The turning out subjects are completely white with the
red eyes and the males and the females are perfectly equal and
must be sexed for surgical way or ADN.
AMERICAN
WHITE MUTATION
this extremely rare mutation in Europe is truly
spectacular. The green is replaced from the white but in the male
the blue remains unchanged. The eye is black. It's given from
the combination of the blue with the american yellow.
BLUE-PASTEL
MUTATION
This mutation,also, combination of the blue and
the pastel, is truly magnificent. The changed subjects are color
of blue sky pale and have the black eyes.
BLUE-FALLOW
MUTATION
They are given from the combination of the blue
with the fallow. These birds blue-clearly have luminous red eyes
and maintain their blue marcature on the males and on the females
of "LUCIDA".
COBALT
MUTATION
The cobalt is a combination of the blue
factors and green olive that produces a deep dark blue bird with
violet markings on the wings and on rump of the males. Extremely
rare and expensive.
OTHER MUTATIONS
GREY MUTATION
This splendid mutation little is known
and little it is known of its origins.
YELLOW HEAD MUTATION
Currently it is in course a debate if this
is one mutation or one subspecies previously disowned. In this
bird, the forehead, the cheeks are yellow rather than green-gray.
Up to now, only the males have visualized the characteristic.
