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- Family: Loriidae
- Size: 6 to 16 inches
- Talking Ability: Low
- Noise Level: Low
- Lifespan: 10 to 20 years
- Breeding Ability: Varies depending on species
- Courtship Male: Stands upright with neck bent and head bobbing while hopping along the perch or ground
- Number of eggs: 3-5
- Incubation: 21 days
- Compatibility with other species: Not recommended
- Diet: Pollen, nectar, vegetables, and fruits such as apples, grapes and pears
- Sexing: DNA or Surgical
- Brushed tongues for extracting nectar from over 5,000 types of flowers
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Lorikeets, also known as Lories, are small to medium colorful psittacines native to Australia.
Lorikeets are playful and energetic birds that require a special diet of a nectar, fruits and vegetables.
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General Care and Tips
- Keep wings clipped.
- Trim nails regularly.
- Keep Quickstop (a styptic powder clotting agent safe for birds) handy in case of bleeding pin feathers or nails.
- Offer fresh food and water daily.
- Lories love to bathe, so offer a bathing tub or bowl of water.
- Cuttlebone provides necessary minerals.
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Lorikeets Merchandise
- PetSmart: Bird Supplies
- Kaytee: Rainbow Lory Information and Products
- PETCO: Bird Supplies
- CafePress.com: Lorikeets T-Shirts and Gifts
- Amazon.com: Lorikeet Books
- Barnes & Noble: Lorikeet Books
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good morning lorikeets and twitterverse!
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@hieronymus It's a bit of a paradise here for parrots. We have cockatoos, king parrots, scaly-breasted lorikeets, rainbows, pale-faces.
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woke up to blue skies and noisy lorikeets this morning. Almost the weekend! Hope everyone has/is having/had a fantastic day ;-)
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I return, I have to feed the lorikeets from my neighbor.
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My flatmate on my refusal to feed the lorikeets again: "I'm going to go to work before my heart breaks."
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