The female incubates the eggs for about 28 days and the chicks leave the nest about 60 days after hatching. The eggs are white and there are usually three or four in a clutch. The Meyer's parrot nests in tree cavities. In drought years they wander in search of food. Although they normally travel in pairs or small flocks, wild Meyer's parrots may gather in much larger numbers where food is plentiful. Seeds of the various leguminous trees of the African woodlands are especially favoured, providing their staple food in some areas. Their wild diet includes fruit, seeds, nuts, berries and cultivated crops. They are also found in southern and central Africa (Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Congo, Angola, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Namibia.īehaviour Food and feeding They are found in high densities in the Okavango Delta region of Botswana. Meyer's parrots are native to the plateau woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa where they occur in several woodland types including miombo, savanna woodlands, wooded grasslands and forests bordering watercourses or agricultural land. Belly and rump colours vary according to subspecies from turquoise to blue. transvaalensis may have little to no yellow on the head. reichenowi lack yellow markings on the head, while P. transvaalensis (Neumann, 1899) - Botswana, Zimbabwe and n South Africa damarensis (Neumann, 1898) - n Namibia, s Angola and nw Botswana reichenowi (Neumann, 1898) - c Angola to s Congo matschiei ( Neumann, 1898) - c Tanzania, se Congo, Zambia and n Malawi
saturatus ( Sharpe, 1901) - Uganda and w Kenya to w Tanzania meyeri ( Cretzschmar, 1827) - s Chad to w Ethiopia The name commemorates the German ornithologist Bernhard Meyer. German physician and ornithologist Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar described Meyer's parrot in 1827.
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