Another advantage of fresh fruit is that it brings funinto the everyday life of a pet bird. Many birds love to play withtheir food, and also they enjoy the taste of it. It's a good idea toserve diffetent kind of fruit because all birds have their favouritefood. The linnie on the right loves apple.

Healthy sorts of fruit:
Apple	Apricot	Asianpear	Banana
Blackberry	Blackcurrant	BlackElder	Bloodorange
Blueberry	Canteloupemelon	Capegooseberry	Carambola
Cherimoya	Cherry	Clementine	Cranberry
Custard apple	Dried dates1	Fig (fresh and dried)1	Gooseberry
Grape	Grenadine	Guava	Honeydewmelon
Huckleberry	Japanese Persimmon	Kiwifruit	Loquat
Lychee(Litchi)	Mandarin	Mango	Melon2
Mulberry3	Nectarine	Opuntia fruit	Orange
Papaya	Peach	Pear	Persimmon,Japanese
Pineapple	Plum	Quince	Rambutan
Raspberry	Redcurrant	Strawberry	Tangerine
Tamarillo (Tree tomato)	Yellow Plum

1)You can get sugar free dried dates and figs in food stores that can beserved to budgies as a sweet. Please do not give it to them too oftenbecause it contains a lot of fructose and your parakeets would becometoo fat.

2) Any kind of melon is a highly appreciated goody forall pet bird species. From water melon to honeydew melon and cantaloupemelon, everything can be served to your feathered friends.

3) Budgies not only love to eat the berries but alsothe leaves of the mulberry plant.

Please do never offerthe following fruit to your budgies:

Avocado (too fatty and toxic for birds near kernel)
Fresh dates (they contain too much tanning agent)
Grapefruit, Pomelo (too much citric acid and bitter)
Kumquats (too acidic)
Passion fruit (nearly all sorts contain too much citric acid)
Japanese persimmons, unripe (contain too much tanning agent, ripe ones are ok)
Lemon or Lime (too much citric acid)

Do you miss a sort of Fresh fruit on this page? Please drop me a lineif you do. Thank you!

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