We have a Rainbow Lori and currently Handrearing a Galah chick(Rose breasted cockatoo)
(our house is going to be very VERY noisey soon!)
Our rainbow is great fun but please note, they are a VERY hormonal species of parrot.
They change over night to nasty little terrors and you will wonder were your sweet cuddly parrot has disapeared too when they hit sexual maturity
Honestly, I wouldnt recommend them to first time parrot owners, you need to be firm and consistant otherwise you will have real problems and another one will end up on TM looking for a new home.
But, If you think you can handle it try and find a handreared DNA'd Male, they are less agressive once they are mature and alot easier to deal with.
The mess they make is somthing else! We have shit up the walls on the windows on the carpet, on the table which is like 3mtrs away it just seems to be everywerre! He has even shat on my dad a few times when he has gone to say hello and hes up against the cage and fires one out at you.
He has alot to say all day, they are definetly not a quiet parrot.
Hes just on a year and can say so far
Hello(he repeats this like a stuck record when you are in the room)
Tookie(his name) and also says it in a grumpy yelling voice
Hello Tookie
Tookie Pookie
Tookie Poo
Pepsi(our dogs name)
Peppy Poo
He copys the beeping noises that the keys make when u use the phone
the beeping of the oven and the microwave
He growls
laughs a real belly laugh
he screems cheep cheep
says ARRRGGGGGG
and knows a ton of different whistles.
here's pics of the little toad when he was 9 weeks old
and this was a female we reared b4 we got this guy
kiss's for teddy