The Erythrura tricolor is found in Indonesia and East Timor, they live in tropical dry forest and dry savannas. Tricolors are currently housed in single pairs as apart of a mixed collection. Their population is stable and are great breeding birds. The Erythrura tricolor can lay 3-6 eggs, after 12-14 days of incubation the eggs are ready. Parents do not begin to feed the hatchlings until they are 24 hours old.

           

This bird is normally  5 meters long by 1m wide. The Tricolored Pare Erythrura Tricolor has lots of beautiful colors like green, blue, red, yellow, and orange. usually the main body color is green and they lack the blue color on there face, they have a deep yellow beak with a dark upper bill.  

 

The global  population size has not been quantified but the species is described as locally moderately common. The population is suspected to be stable in the absence of evidence for any declines or substantial threats. You can find this bird in tropical dry forest, and savannas. These birds like to build a standard wooden nest, as a forest bird they usually choose a shadowed area to build their nest. These type of birds are shy and they stay hidden when danger is around until it is safe to come out. they do so well in their habitat because they can hide well when danger is near and adapt to their surroundings easily.  

 

The Tricolored bird accepted new foods like spay millet, canary seeds, grass seeds, and millet mixture. This bird is a very active bird and do not like small cages, they will get fat pretty soon if they are kept in a cage and no longer will be valuable. The diet for the Forbes Parrot Finch is smaller the the diet of the more common Blue-faced, or Red-headed Parrotfinch but should contain less nutritious seeds. These birds like the grass seed mixture and it keeps them healthy. During the breeding season they get fed wild meadow grass and chickweed.

 

Author: Shelby P

Published: 2-20-14                   

 

Sources:

www.finchinfo.com

www.hofmann-photography.de