A ringneck parakeet is a medium sized parakeet bird that is 16 inches long a good part of which is it's tail. These parrots have an average lifespan between 20 to 25 years. It's possible to find domesticated ringneck parakeets in just about any color imaginable, but the wild ringnecks all have a green body.You can find pied ringnecks, lutino ringnecks, cinnamon ringnecks, blue ringnecks, and gray ringnecks just to name a few. Male ringnecks have a rose and black ring around the neck and both sexes have a red beak.
An adolescent ringneck parakeet will go through a stage known as bluffing. This will tend to make it more aggressive and prone to biting.
Slapping a parakeet bird, yelling at it, shaking you hand vigorously, or any other aggressive action is not the way to teach it to not bite. Biting is a parrots way of defending itself. If you make your bird afraid of you it will only serve to make it bite more. Ignore your pet parrot when it bites and try to remain calm until it stops.
Ringneck parakeets are easy to handle and train when they aren't in the bluffing stage. Their ability to mimic speech is well known and they are good at learning tricks. When a ringneck parakeet has bonded with a person they become protective and act aggressively to any bird, pet or human that it feels is too close to that person.
Without daily handling and socialization ringnecks can revert back to being aggressive and wild birds. Your parakeet also needs time out of it's cage on a regular basis to play and explore. Just be sure to keep an eye on it. They will chew on everything in sight and can soon destroy your furniture or get themselves in trouble.
Ringneck parakeets are playful
, intelligent pet parrots that make a great addition to any home.
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