Parrots are admired and loved for the incomparable beauty of their plumage and their skill in learning the human language. they're intelligent and entertaining creatures. They have an amazing capacity for language, which makes them unique among birds. It's truly fascinating to watch them interact with people!

Most parrots can only imitate humans by saying a few simple words and cannot learn difficult words or many sentences.

This is because they do not understand the meaning of human language but are simply imitating the human voice.

Parrots have very special neurons in their brain, this neuron helps them imitate the sounds humans make and learn to speak.

The mouth of parrots is relatively large and has more flesh on the tongue in a round shape, so the mouth part is very beneficial for them to imitate sounds.

The muscles around the parrot's song tube are well developed, With the contraction of the muscles, the shape of the song pipe will change, so that the sound produced will be more like the human voice.

Parrots live mainly in lowland tropical forests, but also often fly to orchards, farmland, and open pastures.

Most parrots mainly eat fruits, seeds, nuts, berries, shoots and twigs from trees or on the ground, and a few insects.

Nectar-sucking parrots mainly eat pollen, nectar, and soft, juicy fruits.

Parrots are in the process of feeding, often with a strong hook-like beak and flexible pairs of toe-shaped feet to complete.

When looking for food in the canopy, first bite the branch with the beak, then follow with both feet, and when walking on a solid trunk, insert the tip of the beak into the tree to balance the body to speed up the movement, and when eating food, often hold the food with one claw and stuff it into the mouth.

The frequency of using the left and right feet in feeding has been observed in more than 10 species of parrots under breeding, and it was found that more than 72% of individuals tend to use their left foot to grasp food.

Comparative anatomy of the muscles of the hind limbs revealed that the left foot was significantly longer than the right foot for those who often grasped food with the left foot.

And the right foot was only slightly longer than the left foot for those that made good use of the right foot to grasp food.

There are also special cases, such as the deep mountain parrot, which lives in the bush in the mountains of New Zealand, Australia, and has a long, pointed beak.

In addition to having the food habits of other parrots also like to eat insects, crabs, and carrion.

They even jump on the backs of sheep and peck at the meat with their long, hard beaks, which is why local New Zealand pastoralists also call them sheep-pecking parrots.

Parrots of different species have different life spans, generally small parrots class 7-20 years and medium and large parrots' average life span of 30-60 years.

Some medium-sized parrots can live to about 80 years, such as sunflower cockatoos, Amazon parrots, gray parrots, etc.

Now, do you have more understanding of parrots?