The Red Cheeked Parrot is one of the
birds that you can discover in the Casela Bird Park of
Mauritius. The scientific name of the red cheeked parrot
is “geoffroyus geoffroyi”, this bird make part of the
family of “psittacidae”. When the parrot is adult it has
a height of around 25 cm. Its body length is around 20
cm. In general their plumage is bright green and in
their face bright red. The Red Cheeked Parrot is usually
native of Australian or Indonesian, but can also be
found on the Islands of Papua New Guinea, Timor, Leser
Sunda, Aru and Moluccas. They usually live in tops of
rain forest, in gallery forest trees and usually live in
a small group of family or in pairs. They are most of
the time in pairs during the breeding season. Red
Cheeked Parrots are usually considered as quite shy
birds, not aggressive but when it is feeding time they
can get very noisy. Their main food is seeds and
sometimes fruits as figs, nectar and blossom.
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