[Monica]

When your looking at 50+ years, your looking at species such as macaws (there are mini macaws! although a mini's life expectancy may be 30-40), african greys, amazons (some small amazons), and cockatoos (some small toos as well).

Sometimes its hard to say what the life expectancy of a parrot is because we are still so new in aviculture and therefore we are still learning about proper diet, among other things. 5+ years ago, the average life expectancy for a canary was 2-5 years... for budgies it was the same or up to 8 years. Well, I know that both species can live up to 20 years (a member here had a canary die short of it's 20th birthday). Cockatiels can live to be at least 20, but I'm sure I've heard of a few who were older (up to 30 years maybe?). And on a website they said that due to a quakers band they believed it to be 50....

So, in truth, I could tell you a birds expected life span, but there may be birds who have lived longer than that... certainly with new research we may have birds living longer... however, that certainly doesn't guarantee the bird will live that long... as there could be unexpected tragedies (an escape, an attack by another animal, a fire, or otherwise) or even illness which could possibly shorten a birds life...