The tongues of these wonderful parrots are specially adapted to eating nectar. This is the sugar-rich liquid they would naturally get from flowers, along with a bit of pollen which gives vital protein and fats.

The recipe has two parts, first a ‘dry mix’ is prepared by mixing:
1 kilo – Glucose
2 boxes – Banana porridge Milupa baby food
4 teaspoons – Bird park essential (vitamin supplement)
4 tablespoons – Bee pollen
3 tablespoons – Spanish Red pepper powder

Then, to make one pint of nectar you use this dry mix as follows:
2½ tablespoons – Dry Mix
1 tablespoons – Demerera Sugar
1 teaspoon – Honey
1 teaspoon – Golden Syrup
1 teaspoon – Black Treacle
Plus Cranberry juice

Add hot water to warm the ingredients making them easier to mix together, then cold water to make up one pint. The lorikeet group in the Rainbow Aviaires eat between six and nine pints of nectar every day.

Some this is fed by visitors in the school holidays and summer months, plus they get nectar in the bowls in their hut plus small seeds, vegetables and fruit. They also eat nectar directly from any flowers growing in here.

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