While I realize that I'll never be able to give my red bellied parrot the diet his wild relatives eat in East Africa, it's interesting to research it nonetheless.
So far I've got a couple of ornithological studies and a handful of photos. Anyone want to guess what the birds are eating in them?
I think this is sausage tree fruit:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sZzZ1msIkZI/U ... 4A5214.jpg
but I've no idea what is being eaten here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eak-natur/5353087614/
or here:
http://www.lowisandleakey.com/images/bilf2.jpg (Acacia flowers? Cotton candy?)
Any ideas?
--W
Red Bellied diet: Name that wild food!
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Red Bellied diet: Name that wild food!
by Weka » Wed Jan 01, 2014 3:11 pm
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Re: Red Bellied diet: Name that wild food!
by KimberlyAnn » Wed Jan 01, 2014 9:02 pm
That last yellow ball looks like Jaca fruit, but the leaves do not match at all. Hmmm.
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Re: Red Bellied diet: Name that wild food!
by Weka » Tue Jan 07, 2014 3:33 pm
Some more mystery food photos:
http://www.mattwadeart.com/images/africa/large/39.jpg
http://ibc.lynxeds.com/files/pictures/DSC01785.JPG
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Mt4i7ZhMHpk/T ... mage+3.jpg
It's a bit surprising to me, how little info there is to be had online about these birds' feeding habits in the wild. Perhaps I should email some botanical departments in East Africa...
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http://www.mattwadeart.com/images/africa/large/39.jpg
http://ibc.lynxeds.com/files/pictures/DSC01785.JPG
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Mt4i7ZhMHpk/T ... mage+3.jpg
It's a bit surprising to me, how little info there is to be had online about these birds' feeding habits in the wild. Perhaps I should email some botanical departments in East Africa...
--Weka
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. -- Mark Twain
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Re: Red Bellied diet: Name that wild food!
by Pajarita » Tue Jan 07, 2014 4:04 pm
The first one might be a kigelia, the second a rough fingerleaf, and the third could be a variety of acacia.
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Re: Red Bellied diet: Name that wild food!
by Pajarita » Tue Jan 07, 2014 4:08 pm
Weka wrote:Some more mystery food photos:
http://www.mattwadeart.com/images/africa/large/39.jpg
http://ibc.lynxeds.com/files/pictures/DSC01785.JPG
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Mt4i7ZhMHpk/T ... mage+3.jpg
It's a bit surprising to me, how little info there is to be had online about these birds' feeding habits in the wild. Perhaps I should email some botanical departments in East Africa...
--Weka
The first is the same as the second on the first posting, a rough fingerleaf, the third looks like a persimmon but I don't know about the second one. But I would say that even if you don't know for sure what they are, you do know they are fruits!
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Re: Red Bellied diet: Name that wild food!
by Weka » Wed Jan 08, 2014 11:57 am
Awesome detective work, Pajarita. Thanks!
(You wouldn't happen to have lived in Africa, would you?)
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(You wouldn't happen to have lived in Africa, would you?)
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Re: Red Bellied diet: Name that wild food!
by Pajarita » Wed Jan 08, 2014 4:05 pm
No, but I correspond with a breeder in South Africa and I've been doing research on birds for as long as I've had a computer (and before I used to go to the library but there was hardly anything back then) and have gotten good at it.
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