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Bird Food/Nutrition

The Natural Diet -- In the wild, our companion parrots eat fruits, nuts, seeds, bugs, leaves, and a host of other foods that provide their total nutritional needs. In captivity, we can only hope to provide a fraction of that variety, so what we provide had better be the best.
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No, Polly Does NOT Want a Cracker! Or a Seed, Either -- Because of our obvious love for these wonderful creatures, our understanding of parrots has changed greatly over the years. Take feeding, for example. It used to be that pet parrots were typically raised on a diet of seeds and nuts.
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The Proper Parrot Diet -- Just as an inadequate diet leads to nutritional and immune deficiencies in humans, a suboptimal diet can leave companion birds susceptible to infectious and noninfectious diseases.
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Parrots Eat People Food Too -- One of the most common questions I'm asked is "what other things can I feed my parrot?" I then launch into my litany that consists of everything that is healthy for humans to eat with the exception of chocolate, avocado, and onions. Caffeine is out too, for those who think that their daily cups of coffee or sodas are healthy beverages.
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What to Feed Your Parrot -- Over the last few decades, a new trend popped up regarding pet nutrition, regardless of the type of pet involved. This trend focused on giving your pet the food that they would hypothetically eat in the wild if they were still feral. The supporters of this method argument it with the fact that eating raw, natural food keeps your pet healthy and lively, whereas stuffing him with commercial nutrients can cause some serious problems.
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What to NEVER Feed Your Parrot -- The perfect parrot diet is being disputed for a good amount of years now, without any clear answer in foresight, as to what it could contain. The dispute revolves around the use of either natural food similar to that a parrot would eat in the wild or “formulated diets” or pellets containing all the nutritional ingredients a parrot might need on a daily basis. Despite the fact that we’re not 100% sure on what would be the perfect diet for our parrots, there are a couple of things that should be avoided at all costs.
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African Grey Parrots' Food -- When you invite an African Grey parrot to share your home, you are taking on a long-term responsibility to provide a good diet for that parrot for 50 years or more. Many owners fail to do this, even for a few months. Believing that bird seed is enough, they purchase a large bag of mixed seed, and feed their African Grey. Seeds are cheap, so bird food companies push them.
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Changing a Parrot's Diet -- Parrots are not the pickiest of pets when it comes to food, but once you get them used to a specific diet, you’ll definitely have a hard time trying to change it, especially if it’s a radical change, such as from seeds to fruit, natural to packed food and so forth. So if your pet parrot is having his own way regarding what he eats, here’s a couple of tips and tricks to changing his diet, without causing him, or yourself, too much trouble.
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