The life of baby quaker parrots:
After the mother quaker mates with the male quaker, babies may be born after a three month period. The mother may lay up to five eggs at a time. After about a year of sitting on the eggs the eggs hatch, birthing new baby quaker parrots!
Baby quaker parrots are born with feathers, though coloration of the feathers becomes more defined with age. The first batch of feathers you see are their down feathers. The bird's primary flight feathers (primaries) won't grow in until later.
When the quaker parrots are old enough they will begin flapping their wings to learn how to fly. In their natural habitat they might first begin learning to fly by hopping out of the nest and up to another branch. Throughout their adolescence they will perform many test flights until they are confident. When the time is right the quaker will make its first flight. In an undomesticated environment, if the bird survives or does well its first flight it will likely live. If the bird does not survive or is not very good at flying it will not live long enough to reproduce. This is the process of natural selection and it is just a part of life. After the bird learns to fly it will spend its life flying around its natural habitat with other birds, living a beautiful and free life in the sky!
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