Birds typically have a life expectancy of 10-30 years. The parrot family as a whole - including parakeets, cockatoos, macaws and cockateels - tends to live longer. These birds can have a lifespan of 70 years or more.
apprentice. 1  a person under legal agreement to work a specified length of time for a master craftsman in a craft or trade in return for instruction and, formerly, support. 2  a person who is acquiring a trade, craft, or skill under specified conditions, usually as a member of a labor union. 3  any learner or beginner; novice.
âº especially in the past, a formal agreement that someone will work for someone else for a particular length of time, especially in order to learn a job: On the completion of his indenture, he continued to attend night school. The apprenticeship indentures were signed by the guild master and the apprentice's guardian.