Actually they are a Parakeet. I haven't seen any here on LI NY, but the Parrolets are very popular, and look very similar to the Linnie. Years ago I bred the Green-Rump Parrolets and let me tell you, they are one very sweet and comical bird to own. They are not the best of talkers, but can say a few words and mimic different sounds. Smart for training tricks and love to be scratched and hang out on your head and hide in a pocket. My first female bred baby was called Munchkin. She was always a free flying bird around the house and use to go back to her playpen on top of her cage to poop. She never messed on me or anything else.
One day when I was cleaning the bird cages (had lots and lots of birds then)
I could hear Munchkin calling, but couldn't see where she was. She always
came flying to me whenever I would call her. I had several very large
canisters on the kitchen table that had different types of seeds in them. So
here I am calling and calling and she is calling back like crazy and I am
looking all over the kitchen and looking into everything too, as Parrolets
love to hide in tiny things. Finally I realized just how close she was to me
....she fell into the canister of seed and couldn't fly back out!! Too funny
and such a wonderful loving bird she was!! I miss so many of my babies, dogs
birds and even my trained Oranda Gold fish. But I have a lot of wonderful
happy memories of all of them.
I don't have any photo's of my birds uploaded on my lap, although I have
hundreds of them in albums. So here is a web shot of a Lineolated Parakeet
and a Green Rump Parrolet. You can see that the Lineolated has bars on it's
wings and rump which distinguish it from the Parrolet.
Lineolated Green Parakeet
Lineolated Blue Parakeet
Green Rump Parrolet
Other Mutations of Parrolets
American Parakeet on the left and
Green Rump Parrolet to the right
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From: Becky
Date: 4/29/2012 9:23:40 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow
Have you all ever heard of a Lineolated Parrot? We share our home with one
named ZaZoo. Wonderful little parrots!! A vocabulary that seems to never
stop. They seem to be more popular in the northern states, hard to come by
here in Florida.
ZaZoo says, "Good morning", "Whatcha doing"?, "I love you", "Come here kitty
, "KITTY KITTY", "I don't know", "Mom", and laughs just like me!!!
Very affectionate little birds. And not screamers and not messy.
Kind of like chihuahuas, alot comes in this small package. LOL.
Becky & the girls
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On Apr 28, 2012, at 11:42 PM, Joan Croft <[email protected]> wrote:
My parakeet, Buddy, said ‘You rascal, you!’ That was the funniest.
But, messy…yes! Besides the hulls I think he saw himself shining on the
bars and he did all that spit stuff on the wood paneling (that I heard was
like a mating thing…could be wrong!)
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Peggy & The Girls
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 6:27 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow
My guys actually get a mixture of pellets and seeds, plus of course veggies
and fruit and eggs, cheese, and they love a couple strings of plain
spaghetti as a treat.
Years ago I bred lots of the smaller birds, and the parakeets and English
Budgies were my favorite. What makes them so messy in a cage is that they
fly back and forth a lot and thus the hulls get blown all over. My English
Budgies were better talkers then most of the large parrots.
Beau was my first male English baby......so sweet and what a talker!. He
would say 'Morn Mom!', when I got up in the AM. He called every bird in the
house by their names and gave a kissy sound. Some times he would call a
buddy in another cage by name and then add 'watch'a doing?' When my son
would go out the door, he would say 'close the door!' He spoke very clearly
and had a sweet baby sound to his voice. I really to this day miss that
little fellow.
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From: Pam Dean
Date: 4/28/2012 2:52:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow [1 Attachment]
Parrots are much less messy than parakeets too. Mu Quaker eats pellets and
people food vs seed and that leaves much less mess than a parakeet engenders
I love Ozzie but find him much more emotionally needy and attention needy
than my dogs. But there is something about a species that can actually tell
you "Mommy, I love you" in your own language that melts your heart not to
mention endlessly singing Jingle bells and Old Mcdonald, lol. Ozzie is a
ham and loves to be photographed...
From: Peggy & The Girls <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 12:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow
That's sad. Some people have no common sense with animals. I knew of one
jerk that took a wire dog brush and was going to brush his small parrot!
Duh!!
Rainbow is not messy at all. She is a green-cheek conure, one of the
quieter birds. She is bigger then a parakeet, but much smaller then a
cockatiel. Her species can't scream, they only have a low sweet sound.
Being messy depends upon the bird and the type of cage and the type of
feeders that you use. Rainbow has large hooded ceramic feeders and the hulls
just fall back into the dish. She has a deep tray that holds the wood
shaving and she is very clean about it. When she poops, she goes to the
bottom of her cage and pushes the shavings over it and then pushes the
little pile to the corner of her cage. She is a sweet bird that loves to be
held and scratched, and lay on her back in the palm of your hand. I have had
since she was a hand-fed baby and come July she will be 22 yrs old.
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From: [email protected]
Date: 4/26/2012 12:35:17 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow
So cute! I love parrots, but SO messy! We had an African Grey that died
too young... Think Jer gave her chocolate coffee!!!! Can you believe
that?!
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From: Peggy & The Girls
Date: 4/25/2012 8:24:18 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Chihuahuas] OT: My Silly Rainbow
It has taken me 22 years to finally get a shot of Rainbow laying on her back
and playing with her favorite bell. She got mad this time too, and lurched
at the camera, lol! Too funny! This shot is a treasure for me!
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