Daily Celestial Challenge #Tuesday- AnimalKingdom.

Who has not been moved with these small and nice birds? Close relatives of parrots, parakeets or Australian parrots make many homes happy since it is one of the most suitable animals to be adopted as pets and live in captivity.

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The parakeet is a bird native to Australia, in Europe it began to be known back in the 19th century, so it is relatively recent. In its natural habitat it lives in large flocks, nests in the eucalyptus and comes and goes according to the maturity of the seeds.
They are birds perfectly acclimated to life in a cage or aviary, that does not mean they take advantage of the minimum to escape ... If you have a parakeet and can not keep it, do not let it go free because that means killing it, as I said before they are used to the cage, to always have access to their food and water, they do not know how to return to the wild life, they would die of hunger or in the worst of cases devoured by some feline or another animal, so before thinking about releasing it better give them gifts to a person who knows how to treat and care for him.

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Attrition: At first the male will support one of its legs to make an impulse and climb on top of the female.
Then the other leg will be placed in the center and finally it will collapse in the center and finally join, while the male kisses the female (that is, subject to her head) and "hugs" the hemba to maintain the equilibrium.

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Incubation
The female of the Australian parakeets begins to hatch their eggs as soon as the first one sets. For this reason, the young hatch from the eggs in a period of several days instead of leaving all at once. Newborn babies weigh about 50 grams and are unable to move or keep their heads upright. Rest under the female to stay warm while incubating other eggs. The female, and occasionally the male, feed the young with a milky liquid of regurgitated food called parakeet's milk.

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Development
While the young are growing, they get strength and coordination, allowing them to sit down and actively ask for food. The parents gradually include more solid foods, in the form of seeds, with the milk of the parakeet, to form the diet of the young. The pups' eyes open gradually at the end of the first week, over a period of several days. They gain weight quickly, reaching double their weight in two days and continuing with approximately the same amount every day for the next two weeks.

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Plumage
The little Australian parakeets have no feathers or feathers when they are born. Both flight feathers and markers begin to appear around the seventh day of their birth. The pups are completely covered with feathers for day 11, with feathers pushing through the wings and tail. These juvenile feathers, which resemble the plumage of adults but are not so brightly colored, continue their development until the young are seven weeks old, at which point they resemble adults and are able to fly.
Adulthood
The little parakeets stay in the nest for five to six weeks. During this period, they depend completely on their parents to feed themselves. While the feathers grow, the offspring may depend less on the female to stay warm, and this leaves them alone for longer and longer periods between feedings. By the time they leave the nest at 30 days of age, the young parakeets already have the weight of an adult, approximately 100 grams. The feeding by the parents continues in a reduced way after the young reach adulthood, until the birds are completely self-sufficient at 2 months of age.

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