Brotherly love and affection

The first picture gives a really good comparison of their sizes and development.

In the second picture, you can see where the coloring on baby #3's forehead is beginning to show. It looks like he will have more color on his head than the other two!

Here is a picture of #2 giving his older sibling an affection grooming on the face. Their awareness of one another is very clear! Baby amazons are very expressive of their emotions even from a really young age. These babies are only 3 weeks old and yet they are already beginning to use their beaks to touch, taste and feel things! The oldest one has started caressing my fingers with his beak and giving me tender little kisses.

The fourth picture is of baby #2 and #3 cuddled together. They defnitely like the closeness, which I am sure preserves their body temperatures. I am very cautious of keeping them an appropriate temperature at this stage, because they do not yet have downy covering. The room in which I care for them is in the upper 80's and they are not left out of the incubator for long at a time. But the temperature in the room is not very different from their incubator temperatures at this point. When they are fully feathered they will be able to tolerate room temperatures much better.