Eat Dirt? Conures Eating Soil in the Wild
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Uploaded by parrotsdotorg on May 12, 2008
Patagonian Conures in Argentina nest in cliffside colonies like this one in northern Patagonia. If you watch these guys closely, sometimes you'll see them eating the soil itself - aka geophagy as practiced by many other parrots and seed-eating animals (including humans). For more about these birds and all parrots, please visit http://parrots.org/
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its common for parrots to do that. It gives them minerals when they eat it. Oh and its clay they eat not soil :)
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Byrdman (nanday/jenday) Loves THIS!!!!!
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I have thought that too about these conures...that they remind me of falcons...I am glad you said that, I thought it was just me because I love falcons.
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there eating clay they eat clay because it takes all the piosion stuff away that they eat
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Their feathers look like the feathers of Meyer's parrots. I always think Patagonians look like Poicephalus.
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interesting, thanks, never thought about their colors that way, but you're right. i think their head shape reminds me most of the large red macaws, but when they fly, they look like peregrine falcons ... great birds!
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