African Grey Parrot Centre ™

The African Grey Parrot Centre ™ has been around since 2007 and has consistently grown year on year ever since with even more useful parrot articles, useful resources and useful hints and tips about how to look after your African grey parrots, we are now becoming widely known as the number one community for African grey parrot related information

You will already find all sorts of useful African grey parrot related information on this site from keeping parrots, how to look after them to the do's and don't on what to feed them, we have also incorporated an african grey forum for you to talk to the rest of the community of like minded individuals and experts.

We have developed a classified ad section of the site where you can look for or breeders may post up their parrots for sale and parrot related peripherals such as cages, so feel please do browse or register to post ads for FREE!

We also have our own section of the site to show you the progress of some of the baby parrots we have bred and also there are testimonials from people that these hand reared babies now reside with.

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• Devastating News
  It is with a very broken heart that I’m writing Rocky’s last blog, as my beautiful boy sadly passed away on the 10/03/2013. Rocky had suffered a heart attack during the course of Saturday night, he was rushed to the vets when found in a state first thing Sunday morning, but sadly he passed away [...]
• Neo March 2013 Update
  Hi all just a quick one to say neo is doing well,he has a red bum now lol a first for him but still loves pulling his feathers out,barks like the local dog early in the morning,and love organic orange juice a replacement for his grapes .when he stayed with Paula she said he was [...]
• Rocky, Ruby, & Lady
  Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve updated you all, but my laptop broke so had no way of updating. Thanks to my lovely hubby I now have a new one as of yesterday Rocky - Rocky is doing brilliantly, he now spends most of his time on the Java Trees, and can now move [...]
• Billy The Timneh Update
  Its coming up 2 years in June since Billy joined our family. He gives me a lot of pleasure with his chatting and he learns new words slowly. I’ve been calling him my best boy,now he says bill best lol… Billy and Bella come out together now and do their own thing. As you can [...]
• Busby Warms His Feathers!!
  Well as it was such a lovely day yesterday Busby wanted to take himself outside into the garden to get some sunshine on his feathers, considering it was frosty in the morning I was very shocked to see how warm it was, so the kids all went outside to play in the garden as it [...]
• Breeding African Grey Parrots
  African grey parrots are often hand reared by professional breeders and handlers for the pet trade as they make affectionate and rewarding pets. They are usually long lived with an age span ranging from 25 to 50 years, this can vary dependant on diet, disease and stress. They are very intelligent birds, some have exhibited the ability to process words and information and respond with an appropriate response (ie a conversation rather than repetition). The birds are excellent mimics with a capability of over 2000 words as well as imitating household sounds such as phones ringing.
• African Grey Parrots As Pets
  A pet Congo African Grey ParrotThe history of African Grey parrots kept as pets dates back over 4,000 years. Some Egyptian hieroglyphics clearly depict pet parrots[verification needed]. The ancient Greeks also valued parrots as pets. This custom was later adopted by wealthy Roman families who often kept parrots in ornate cages. King Henry VIII of England also had an African Grey parrot. Portuguese sailors kept them as companions on their long sea voyages.
• African Grey Parrot Mimicry & Intelligence
  While comparative judgements of animal intelligence are always very difficult to make objectively, Psittaciformes are generally regarded as being the most intelligent of birds.
• African Grey Parrot Species Defined
  The African Grey Parrots are all in the genius Psittacus. Only a single species makes up this genus, Psittacus erithacus. This species is further divided into three subspecies or races.
• About African Grey Parrots
  The African Grey Parrot is the perfect mix of brains and is we believe one of the most beautiful parrots of them all. This species of parrot has become quickly recognised as the best speaking parrot of the lot, I write this while listening to Reggie our family Grey chatters in the background, god knows where he picks up half the things he says, he seems to pick up words and string them together, now that's intelligence to the higher degree!!!