Swainsons Lories

Swainson's Lorikeets are very active and entertaining as companion pets. Every object and noise will be investigated with great delight and often turned into a game. They are born clowns as they like to be silly and exaggerate their movements. Lorikeets love to play and will often roll onto their backs to wrestle with your hands or play with a foot toy. A lorikeet may decide to hop instead of walk to get from A to B.
As they are so active, Rainbows need to be provided with plenty of toys. They are particularly fond of things they can swing on, make noise with, and foot toys. While they like to shred things and occasionally chew, they aren’t huge on chewing compared to many other parrot species.
Rainbow Lorikeets need a large-sized cage as they are quite energetic and tend to use every corner of it. They also love water and enjoy a bath or shower nearly every day.
Diet: Swainson’s Lorikeets should also be feed fruit and vegetables. They are specialised in eating nectar as their main food source. They also require more fruit compared to other parrots. In captivity a lorikeet’s base diet should be either wet or dry nectar mix (or both). Lorikeet food can either be bought commercially or there are a number of recipes for making it yourself, usually composed of baby cereal, rice flour, breadcrumbs, glucose powder, skim milk powder, semolina (wheat hearts), pollen mixture, etc. Lorikeets pellets are also available but are generally not recommended or accepted by the birds.