"Almost Alike" Indian Ringneck Vs Maritious Parakeet

This weeks edition of the newsletter is going to be about two twins, the Indian Ringneck and the Maritious Parakeet. This bird is also know as the Echo parakeet. Even though it's a parakeet, it's really a parrot.

The Indian Ringneck and the Echo parakeet are very alike in color and species. However, these twins aren't always alike. They also have many differences. The Echo parakeet eats buds, flowers, and leaves, fruit, seeds, and bark/sap. In the wild, the Indian Ringneck eats fruits, veggies, nuts, berries, and seeds. In captivity, they eat fruits, bread, berries, veggies, peppers, seeds like wheatberry, sprouts, and millions of other things.

The Echo parakeet lives in southwest Maritious which is very close to India. The Indian Ringneck lives in India and Burma. The Echo parakeet lives on or in a forests, bushlands, and islands. The Indian Ringneck lives in semi deserts, open scrubs, evergreen forests, bushlands and light rainforests in India and other places.



The Echo parakeet was very endangered during the 1970's through 1980's At that time there was only about ten left in the world. Then around 2011-2012 there were estimated to be around 580 during breeding season. 300-350 of those were adults.

The Echo parakeet lays 1-4 eggs. The Indian ringneck is very popular and lays around 3-5 eggs. As you can see although very much alike, these two birds have some differences. That's it for this weeks newsletter. Stay tuned for next weeks topic coming soon. Brought to you by Burds The Wurd.