Biggest Polly Wants a Cracker

African Grey

These parrots make their homes in India. They weigh in at 4 pounds. African greys are noted for their soft feathers, loud squawks, high intelligence, and playful behavior. They can live up to 80 years. Their diet consists of fruit, nuts, and seeds.

Alexandrine Parakeet

Alexandrine parakeets originated in India and Sri Lanka. They make their homes in forests, woodlands, agricultural lands, and mangrove forests. These parakeets were named after Alexander the Great, who transported many birds from Punjab to European and Mediterranean regions. They make a variety of calls and can imitate human speech. The parakeets are green with blue-grey on the cheeks and the back of their necks. Their abdomens are yellow-green with red patches on the shoulders. Their beaks are red with yellow tips. They enjoy seeds, fruit, buds, and nuts.

Blue-and-Gold Macaw

These birds enjoy a wide range from Panama in Central America and almost every country in northern South America. They have been introduced to Puerto Rico. Blue and Gold macaws live in forests near rivers and swamps. They can also be found in grassy savannahs it tall trees are around. The birds have a wingspan of 40 inches or more and can weigh over 2 pounds. Their life expectancy is 60 years or more. Blue and Gold macaws are colorful birds with plumage in bright red, yellow, and blue colors. The birds feed on nuts, seeds, fruit, plants, and grains.

Great Green Macaw

These birds are native to South America. They are native to Central and South America and found in the countries of Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, and Ecuador. Great green macaw habitats are both tropical dry and tropical moist forests. Their coloring is mostly green with reddish foreheads and pale blue lower back, rump, and upper tail feathers. When flying they are very noisy birds emitting loud aak-raak sounds. Being herbivores they feed on seeds, nuts, and fruits, but also flowers, bulbs, roots, and bark. These birds live for 30 years or more.

Hyacinth Macaw

These parrots are native to South America in the countries of Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador. The birds can weigh up to 5 pounds. Their diet includes fruit, nuts, and seeds. Hyacinth Macaws got their name from their lovely blue and purple plums draped down their faces.

Palm Cockatoo

These cockatoos are also known as Red-Tailed Black Cockatoos. They are native to Australia and found throughout New South Wales and Queensland. Some populations can be found in Victoria and Western Australia. These birds are black or smoky-grey. They have large crests and one of the biggest beaks of any parrot. Their diet consists mostly of wild-growing pandanus palm fruit and nuts from the kanari tree. They may also eat fruit from Darwin's stringybark, Eucalyptus tetradonta, and nonda tree, as well as seeds from the cocky apple tree, beach almond, and black bean tree.

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

These large cockatoos are native to Australia. They are short-billed with glossy black plumage and yellow crests or head patches. As with other birds being herbivores they feed on seeds, nuts, blossoms, fruit, insects, and insect larvae.

Umbrella Cockatoos

These birds are native to South America and inhabit humid tropical or subtropical moist lowland or gallery forests. They are social birds. They have a pure white body with a distinct yellow coloration on their tail feathers and underside of the wings. Their diets include fruit, seeds, and some flowers, and buds.

Yellow-naped Amazon

Yellow-naped Amazon live in the rainforests of Central America. They’ve also been introduced to Hawaii and Florida. The birds were first introduced to Monroe County in Florida in the US in 1987 when Hurricane Gilbert destroyed a great deal of their green space. These birds have a wingspan of 42 to 45 inches and from beak to tail about 25 to 27. Male birds can weigh up to 2 pounds. They have yellow napes around their necks. The birds feed on fruit, seeds, nuts, berries, blossoms, and leaf buds.