Red Belly vs. Crimson Belly
Better defined as
Red Bellied Parrot vs. Crimson Bellied Conure
| Red Bellied Parrot | Crimson Bellied Conure |
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| Poicephalus Family African Species - Old World
Short tail "Parrots" have short tails. |
Pyrrhura Family South American Species - New World
Long tails "Parakeets" have long tails. |
| Potential to be a good talker
with fairly clear pronunciation. Stocky and compact, average weight about 125 grams. Orange colored belly on male Sexually dimorphic = males and females look different |
Potential to have a
small vocabulary with more slurred pronunciation. Streamline in build with average weight about 60-80 grams. Bright red colored belly on male and female Sexually monomorphic = males and females look the same |
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| *Tendency to be more
a one person bird. Can be overcome if properly handled and the
family members who are not the bird's favorite are willing to
work with the Red Belly.
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*Potential to be more of a family bird and freely interact with more than one person. |
| *Rarely able to house
these with other species.
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*Potential to be housed with another bird of same size. |
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*Love to snuggle and
be touched all over!
*Relatively quiet |
*Love to snuggle and
be touched all over!
*Relatively quiet |
*When I describe the personality of a particular species, these are generalities and individual birds do not always read their own "species description" meaning they don't always fit into these nice little categories. Birds are individuals with wide variances even among individuals of the same species.