Keeping a parrot in an apartment

✍️ Petop editorial📅 Oct 10, 2026⏱ 6 min read👁 2,111

Parrots are smart and social. Cage, diet, noise and teaching them to talk.

Apartment-friendly species

Budgies and cockatiels are quiet starters; quakers and ringnecks talk well; conures and cockatoos are very loud.

Overheated non-stick pans, aerosols, smoke, open windows and ceiling fans.

Short, repeated words in the same context, short morning sessions and small rewards.

A crested, gentle parrot; males are excellent whistlers.

The most intelligent talking parrot; a decades-long commitment needing daily mental stimulation.

Small, colourful parrots that bond tightly; peach-faced, Fischer’s and masked are common.

A long-tailed talker with colour mutations; males show a neck ring.

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