Incubating Data - Parrots

Incubation Data for (average size, clutch and incubation):

  • African Grey Parrots
  • African / Asiatic / Indian / Ringneck Parakeets / Parrots (Genus: Psittacula) - Alexandrine Parakeet, Blossom-headed Parakeet, Derbyan Parakeet, Emerald-collared Parakeet, Indian Ring-necked Parakeet, Long-tailed Parakeet, Malabar Parakeet, Moustached Parakeet, Plum-headed Parakeet, Rose-ringed Parakeet, Slate-headed Parakeet
  • Amazon Parrots
  • Brotogeris (Canary-winged Parakeets, Golden-winged Parakeets, Grey-cheeked Parakeets, Orange-chinned Parakeets, Plain Parakeets, Tui Parakeets)
  • Caiques
  • Cockatoo Data
  • Lories / Lorikeets
  • Macaws
  • Pionus Parrots (Blue-headed Pionus, Red-vented Parrot, Dusky Parrot, Maximilian's Parrot, Plum-crowned Parrot, Restless Parrot, Red-billed Pionus, Sordid Parrot, White-capped Pionus, Massena's Parrot
  • Poicephalus: Brown-headed Parrot, Jardine's Parrot, Kuhl's Cape Parrot, Brown-necked Parrot, Meyer's or Brown Parrot, Red-bellied Parrot, Red-breasted Parrot, Abessinian Parrot, Orange-bellied Parrot, Rüppel's Parrot, Senegal Parrot
  • Rosella Parrots
  • Vasa Parrots

For miscellaneous parrot species, scroll down ...

Misc. Parrots: Average Eggs per Clutch / Days of Incubation
Amboina King Parakeets (Alisterus amboinensis) 3 eggs 21 days
Antipodes Green Parrot or Antipodes Island Parakeet (Cyanoramphus unicolor) 2 - 6 eggs 26 days
Barraband's Parrot or Orange-cheeked Parrot (Pionopsitta barrabandi) 4 - 6 eggs 20 days
Barred Parakeets (Bolborhynchus lineola) 3 - 6 eggs 18 - 20 days
Blue-bellied Parrots / Purple-bellied Parrots / Purple-breasted Parrots (Triclaria malachitacea) 3 - 5 eggs 25 - 30 days
Blue-naped Parrot aka Luzon Parrot or Philippine Green Parrots (Tanygnathus lucionensis lucionensis) 2 - 3 eggs 25 days
Blue-rumped Parrots (Psittinus cyanurus) 3 - 5 eggs 26 days
Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) 4 - 8 eggs 18 days
Cloncurry Parrots (Platycercus barnardi macgillivrayi) 4 eggs 20 - 21 days
Cockatiels (Nymphicus hollandicus) 4 - 7 eggs 18 - 21 days
Great Billed Parrots (Tanygnathus megalorhynchos) 2 eggs 28 days
Ground Parrot aka Ground Parakeet (Pezoporos wallicus) 3 - 4 eggs 20 - 21 days
Hawk-headed Parrots (Deroptyus accipitrinus accipitrinus) 2 - 4 eggs 25 - 28 days
Horned Parakeets (Eunymphicus cornutus) 2 - 4 eggs 21 - 23 days
Yellow-fronted or Yellow-crowned Parakeets (Cyanoramphus auriceps) 5 - 9 eggs 19 days
King Parakeet (Alisterus scapularis) 3 - 6 eggs 20 days
Lineolated Parakeets (Bolborhynchus lineola) 3 - 6 eggs 18 - 20 days
Lovebirds (Agapornis) 4 - 6 eggs 22 - 25 days

Mallee Ringneck Parrots or Barnard's Parakeets (Platycercus barnardi barnardi aka Barnardius barnardi barnardi)

4 - 6 eggs 20 - 21 days
Maroon-fronted Parrots (Rhynchopsitta terrisi) 1 - 3 eggs 24 - 26 days
Masked Shining Parakeets (Prosopeia personata) 2 - 4 eggs 24 - 25 days
Mountain Parakeets (Bolborhynchus aurifrons) 2 eggs 23 days

Night Parakeet (Geopsittacus occidentalis)

4 - 5 eggs Extinct?
Pileated Parrot or Red-capped Parrots(Pionopsitta pileata) 3 - 4 eggs 24 - 25 days
Port Lincoln Parrots (Barnardius / Platycercus zonarius) 4 - 7 eggs 21 days
Princess Parakeet (Polytelis alexandrae) 4 - 7 eggs 20 - 21 days

Quaker or Monk Parrot (Myiopsitta monachus)

4 - 8 eggs 24 - 28 days
Red-capped Parakeet (Purpureicephalus spurius) 4 - 6 eggs 20 days
Red-fronted Parakeet (Cyanoramphus novaezealandia) 3 - 9 eggs 20 days
Regent Parakeet (Polytelis anthropeplus) 3 - 7 days 22 - 23 days
Red Shining Parrots (Prosopeia tabuensis) (captive) 1 - 4 eggs
(nature: 2 to 3 eggs)
24 - 25 days
Red-winged Parakeet (Aprosmictus erythropterus) 3 - 6 days 21 days
Short-tailed Parrots (Graydidascalus brachyurus) 3 - 4 eggs 24 - 25 days
Sierra Parakeets (Bolborhynchus aymara) 4 - 6, but up to 10 20 - 24 days
Superb Parakeet (Polytelis swainsonii) 4 - 6 eggs 20 - 22 days
Swift Parakeet (Lathamus discolor) 2 - 5 eggs 20 days
Thick-billed Parrots (Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha) 1 - 2 eggs 24 - 28 days
Twenty-Eight Parrots (Barnardius zonarius semitorquatus) 4 eggs 20 - 21 days


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