It would be great if we could find out more about, what our parrot’s food would be, when they lived in the wild. Researchers have caught parts of their eating habits. But so far there seems to be no way of following them around and watch what they consume over a period of a year, or at least some month.
I remember a story, somebody who traveled to many places where parrots live, was telling me once. He lived at a place in Costa Rica with an almond grove nearby. Once a year when the almonds were ripe, a huge flock of scarlet macaws came. They stayed until they had eaten all the almonds and then disappeared until the next year. Nobody ever knew where they spend the rest of the year, because this was the only time they were seen.
I wonder if flocks have places where they know certain foods will be ripe and eatable at a specific time or if this is a single case.