Senegal Parrot Comparison for Senegal Parrot Owners

[keroppi83]

Salad
Female, DNA sexed
Sub Species : Orange bellied Senega
1 year and 5 months old
8 months old at purchase
Silvery Yellow Eyes
Minimum89g, Maximum 108g, and Typical Weight 104 g
Favorite Foods: apple,Mango,carrot ,Cherry
Temperament: Temperament: Happy go lucky but timid until he is secure in his environment

[Basilbirdie2012]

Name- Basil
Gender (specify if DNA, known, or guessed)- Male
Sub Species (if known)- P. s. mesotypus
Current Age- 1year
Age at which you acquired- 12 weeks
Eye color (and age at which it changed)- yellow, and its just now changing colors(May2013
Minimum, Maximum, and Typical Weight in Grams- Min- 125grams, max- 134grams
Favorite Foods- Sweet-tarts, green beans, French fries(I only give the bad food in small quantities)
Temperament- He is the sweetest, most loving, chill, inquisitive, Smart!!!

[Strawfrawg]

Name: Marvin Beakman

Gender (specify if DNA, known, or guessed): DNA-sexed male

Sub Species (if known): Mesotypus

Current Age: Hatched 1/24/2013

Age at which you acquired: 9 weeks

Eye color (and age at which it changed): Eyes changing now at 17 weeks, getting lighter gray with a hint of yellowish-green

Minimum, Maximum, and Typical Weight in Grams: 114g when brought home, 127g max. Average 125g.

Favorite Foods: Walnuts, almonds, apple, scrambled egg, raw carrot if cut into sticks, pear, cooked edamame, sweet potato, tropical Nutriberries, raw corn on the cob

Temperament: Playful, confident, and curious. EXTREMELY cuddly and easygoing so far. Empathetic to human emotions. Not afraid of loud noises or sudden movements. Only nippy when mad - passes quickly. Likes everybody he meets and not shy at all. Can be touched anywhere by anyone and held in any position. Tries any food he's given. Takes meds and grooming without a fight. Very quiet except for morning greetings and chatters quietly when falling asleep. If he stays like this, I'm golden.

[hercules]

Have 2 Senegals:

Hercules - female; yellow subspecies, !8 years old, acquired as a weaned, hand-reared chick. Thought to be male for 9 years! Loves me, adores my son, but will go to anyone who visits the house to greet them. Extremely playful and affectionate and very rarely bites; will tolerate anything but has a deep mistrust of elastic bands and the vacuum cleaner, which once tried to swallow her when she attacked the nozzle when it came near her cage. Says a few words and imitates the burglar alarm whenever we are about to leave the house; never at any other time. Is hyper-intelligent and knows what we are about to do long before we do it by observing our behaviour. Adores baked potato and apple cores.

Bubble - male; yellow subspecies but age unknown as he was a maltreated rescue 10 years ago (is probably about 14). Very aggressive at first, but after 9 years he will now accept petting form myself and my son and has stopped biting us, but very afraid of new people. Adores Hercules, but she only accepts food from him. He adores dried chillies and repeatedly jumping off his water pot onto the cage floor for the satisfying loud bang it produces. Hates my Meyers parrot, Goldie.

[Wolf]

Please be cautious with the apple cores as the seed is toxic for your birds. The toxins build up slowly.

[Pajarita]

Oh, yes, please no apple seeds (or pears or any other pit like). Also, not to correct you but to inform you, the yellow bellied is not a subspecies, it's the nominate.

[Yarrow]

Oh, yes, please no apple seeds (or pears or any other pit like). Also, not to correct you but to inform you, the yellow bellied is not a subspecies, it's the nominate.

Not to correct but to inform you, the yellow bellied is the nominate subspecies :p
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subspecies

[Pajarita]

I know what subspecies means. The yellow-vested sennie is what it's called the 'nominate' and not usually referred to as a subspecies by bird people although, from a taxonomy point of view, you could. The nominate is always the first species ever recognized, classified and named and this was Poicephalus senegalus. When and if they find variations to a species (some of them don't and they just retain the binome), they simply double the species name (the second one) to indicate this IS the nominate while the others have a different third name - so the yellow-vested became Poicephalus senegalus senegalus, the orange-vested was named Poicephalus senegalus mesotypus and the red Poicephalus senegalus versteri. With some species, the third name becomes the 'common' name of that subspecies as in the yellow headed amazons like the Panama (Amazona ochrocephala panamensis), the Tres Marias (Amazona ochrocephala tresmariae), the Belizean (Amazona ochorcephala belizensis).