Quaker Parrot

Who a Quaker Parrot suits

For somebody who wants a great talker at a manageable size and will indulge the building. It will nest in anything it can reach and defend the results with conviction, so a keeper who takes cage territory personally is the wrong keeper for it.

How to build the bond: Give building materials — a Quaker bonds with whoever respects the construction site. That sits on top of how the species works generally: Bond through rhythm — morning greetings, call-and-response, meals in company. To a bird, being answered is being loved.

The Quaker Parrot against the other nineteen

Lined up stillest to liveliest, the Quaker Parrot is 15th of the twenty bird breeds here, one of 8 in the lively band — the energy arrives whether or not it was planned for, so the question is never whether it gets spent but on what.

Ordered by how near each one sits to the Quaker Parrot on the energy axis, then by the notes they have in common. Every bird breed reads this table from its own position, so no two of the twenty are ordered alike.

The birth years a Quaker Parrot sits easiest with

This half of the reading is the species rather than the breed — every bird meets a given birth year the same way. These are the communities that sit easiest with one:

• Whale Spirit Guardian—1948,1960,1972,1984and later
• Monkey Spirit Guardian—1956,1968,1980,1992and later
• Eagle Spirit Guardian—1957,1969,1981,1993and later
• Elephant Spirit Guardian—1959,1971,1983,1995and later

A birth year outside that list is not a warning — it is the half of the reading this page cannot settle on its own. Seat the pair on the board and it reads the rest. What the bird is like as a companion applies to the Quaker Parrot as much as to the other nineteen.

A pairing that involves an animal returns a word rather than a percentage. The board's deepest layer reads two inner selves against each other and an animal cannot hold one, so the result is described rather than scored — what is read here is the keeper's birth year against the species, and the breed decides everything about living with it day to day. An animal does get a chart of its own once its birth hour is known, one rung further up.

Frequently asked

What is a Quaker Parrot like to live with?

The little architect — Quakers are the only parrots that build stick nests, and they manage their households (yours included) with the same busy devotion. Superb talkers for their size. On the energy axis this catalogue uses, the Quaker Parrot reads as lively — 15th of the twenty bird breeds here when they are lined up stillest to liveliest.

Who is a Quaker Parrot a good match for?

For somebody who wants a great talker at a manageable size and will indulge the building. It will nest in anything it can reach and defend the results with conviction, so a keeper who takes cage territory personally is the wrong keeper for it.

How do you bond with a Quaker Parrot?

Give building materials — a Quaker bonds with whoever respects the construction site. That sits on top of how the species works generally: Bond through rhythm — morning greetings, call-and-response, meals in company. To a bird, being answered is being loved. The thing that most reliably undoes it — Silence is the one cruelty — a bird left out of the conversation plucks the loneliness into its feathers.

Which bird breeds are most like a Quaker Parrot?

Lovebird, Budgerigar, Indian Ringneck — nearest first, measured on energy band and shared traits. At the other end of the same twenty sits the Diamond Dove, two bands apart. Every one of the nineteen is ranked against the Quaker Parrot further up this page.