What is a Caique (pronounced ki-EEKS)?


The caique parrot is
A medium sized parrot from the Amazon rainforest which comes in two species and five subspecies, White Bellied and Black Headed. Both look as if they are wearing outfits: yellow or orange pants, white shirt, green jacket and a orange or black hat.

The Caique is an attractive parrot who can be surprisingly destructive for it’s 9 inch size and can be quite noisy. However they are extremely tame, highly social birds and can make excellent pets. They live for around 40 years.

Also known as Seven-Color Parrot, Dancing Parrot, Clown Parrot or even Monkey Parrot.

Whats their party trick?
The caique hop, this is so cool and fascinating to watch, we will have a video of this online soon.
Surfing, caiques love to surf through your hair, on your clothes and after bathing, a video of this will be online soon too.
Playing on their backs infact they are acrobatic little chaps who live to play, and have a real zest for life.