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the Parrot Society which was published in the January 1982 magazine. Most of the things mentioned in that article about breeding Ruppell’s still apply today, but a considerable amount of additional knowledge has now been gained since then. As such I feel obligated to write this article as an update in the hope that more people will be successful in breeding with this very interesting parrot species. They are a bit different to most parrots in the fact that females are more colourful than males with the lower front body and vent area being bright blue. All the young are this colour but males loose most of the blue at maturity and only sometimes have a very faint blue tinge on the feathers by the vent area. Ruppell’s territory in the wild straddles Angola and Namibia in the continent of Africa which is a very hot place very near the equator. Consequently the Ruppell’s parrots mainly frequent the forested areas where they can get shade and a cooler environment to live and breed. You often read reports of Ruppell’s Parrots feeding along dried up river beds and streams etc., but this is quite rare and obviously more conspicuous and reportable. Quite sometime ago I had a friend who had a relation in Angola


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ay back in 1981 I bred Ruppell’s Parrots for the first time and wrote an article for


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