African Grey Parrots Bonding ?

[Pajarita]

Beans and lentils are high protein, too. You need to offer cooked whole grains like oats, wheat, brown, black or red rice, kamut, barley and mix them with some thoroughly cooked (at high temperature) beans and/or lentils and the same amount (so the final mixture is half vegetables and half grains/beans) accompanied by one raw vegetable, one fruit and one leafy green (meaning something like lettuce, chicory, escarole, broccoli but no spinach, no collard greens). Then, in the evening, when the sun is halfway down to the horizon, you turn off the artificial lights and give them their seed/nut dinner (about 1/4 cup each).

Be careful about putting parrots out under the direct sun, it could get too hot for them and you can kill them of heatstroke (parrots are in trees, not out there under the sun for long periods of time).

[Hanya Kassem]

I won't only give them beans , I'll do what you told me to do . I give them seeds but why do i have to turn off the lights for dinner ? I put them in the sun today , i know i shouldn't put them directly in the sun i make sure that they are supervised when they are outside .

Should i put them outside to see the dusk too ?

[Wolf]

No, you don't have to put them outside for these twilight periods ( dawn and dusk), being near a window would help though. The reason for turning off the lights is so the birds can get the exposure to the light that occurs at dusk without interference from the artificial light and so that the bird can drift off to sleep as naturally as possible as the light shifts through dusk to full dark.
The reason for putting the bird outside for the sunlight is that window glass and many of the new screens block the UV light that the bird needs to manufacture Vitamin D-3.
There is a special property to the light that occurs at dawn and dusk that sets their internal clock as well as starts and stops its countdown regarding the length of the days and nights. We do know that it is not UV light doing this but I don't know exactly what it is about the light at these times that causes it to function this way, just that it does.