tiels, are very friendly they can eat sunflower seeds, noodles ours love kraft dinner, crackers, veggies and fruit no citrus. They can talk if you teach them mine can. They can also be very loud at times, but are a great pet.
acceptable foods are:
broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, apple, pear, peach, pinapple, quava, mango, fresh corn and cottage cheese. The things you want to stay away from are: avocodo, chocolate, ice cream, cake, cookies and high fat seeds.

high fat seeds would be the ones ppl eat....

lifespan is 12-15 yrs but they have seen them hit 20
oh yeah never give raw potatoe either
if you have any more questions let us know
Hope spencer finds his home

p.s yah it is pearled I look it up as well