Skittles the rainbow lorikeet Skittles is our sweet little lorikeet girl who likes to show off all her feathers to her best friend Jack! Jack loves Skittles more than anything and we’re so happy to announce that Skittles will be staying at the sanctuary and will be helping Jack recover and vice versa. Skittles was raised by conures being fed a diet that would kill a lorikeet. A straight seed diet is not ideal for ANY bird but is deadly for a lorikeet who are nectar and fruit eaters. Lorikeets have an iron storage disorder in which all the iron they eat throughout their entire lifespan stores up until it’s enough to kill them. Luckily, we were able to take Skittles from a young age and there should be no long-lasting effects, we hope. She did communicate with other birds and have body language more in tune with conures so meeting Jack was a strange spectacle at first. Over time though Jack has shown Skittles to play and communicate and eat like a true lorikeet. In exchange Skittles has shown Jack patience and compassion and friendship that he’d previously not found in other birds. Bald or not Skittles accepts Jack and Jack adores Skittles. They cannot live in the same cage together as they have different medical needs and on-going care but live side by side and get time out together all the time. Skittles is a playful girl who likes to do circles, dance, take baths and make rattle noises. She is a beautiful girl who will curl up in our hair and spend just as much time with us as she does with Jack.
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