GumNutPaks
Eucalyptus Gum Nuts – parrot delicacies
If you were an Australian parrot living in the wild then you’d spend a good deal of your life either in eucalyptus trees or flying in between them. It’s almost certain that you would have been hatched in the hollows of one and that’s where you’d shade yourself from the heat of the hot Australian sun.
Seeds would form a part of your diet and you’d strip them from the stems using your claws & beak. You’d eat eucalyptus bark and strip it from the trees to get at the larger insects & larvae and you’d scar eucalyptus trees so as to make them ooze sap. You’d keep coming back to those wounds too; to get the sugars contained that sap. You’d eat eucalyptus flowers too and you’d eat the leaves.
But why have you got that huge beak?
Australian parrots and cockatoos have large strong beaks for two reasons. The first is to crack open those hard gum nuts and the second is to enable them to chew through eucalyptus branches so as to ingest the saps from the bark.
Many Australian birds feed on Eucalyptus trees and devour fresh Eucalyptus flowers. Gum nuts are the seed heads/pods left behind when the Eucalyptus trees have finished flowering. When dry they're very hard and retain their eucalyptus smell for a year or more. Australian parrots & cockatoos are attracted to the smell and love to crack them open. It keeps them amused for a long time. You can give them to your birds one at a time or try making your own toys with them by drilling them and stringing them together kebab style.
These are the treats that Australian cockatoos and parrots eat in the wild.
These paks weigh 670gm (1 1/2 lb)
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