/r/Conures

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A place to share pictures, ask questions, have discussions, and share articles about our favorite avian, the conure!


The r/Conures Comprehensive Conure Guide!

Welcome to /r/Conures - a place to share pictures, ask questions, have discussions, and share articles about our favorite avian, the conure!


Subreddit rules and guidelines:

  • If you are posting images of a sick or injured bird, please tag your post NSFW. This will warn those who are not prepared to view such images, as well as clearly mark your submission as asking for urgent help or advice. Thank you.

  • Images of birds in dangerous situations - in close proximity to a carnivore (dog, cat), outdoors without a harness, etc - may be removed. See this post for further information.

  • We welcome images of conure paintings and handmade conure-related items! But please, no promotion of your work for sale. This includes Etsy or other online store links in comments, "find more in my profile", "pm me for details", etc etc.

  • No soliciting donations. We understand that not being able to afford vet care for a sick or injured bird is stressful and distressing. However, we do not allow solicitations for financial support.


External links:

Parrot First Aid - Facebook group

Conure Owners Unite - Facebook group


Other great subreddits to check out:

Check out the r/Conures Comprehensive Conure Guide here!

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Precious Pocket Pet!

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2024/03/01
17:31 UTC

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Drastic Change

So Ivy just had her 2nd bday on Feb 17th. Roughly within a week after that her whole attitude has changed drastically.

She NEVER used to cuddle like this. She would sometimes let us hold her like an icecream cone but hated being scritched. I never imagined she would ever let me cup her in my hand and pet her, let alone fall asleep on me.

What the heck happened? She won’t leave me alone now. She has to be on my shoulder and is always cuddling my face and neck if I’m sitting or working at the desk.

Is puberty over??

Side note, she’s still a little aggressive if my wife tries to get close to me. It’s obvious she’s being territorial, just not sure what brought this sudden change and if I should be worried about anything.

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2024/03/01
16:55 UTC

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Glove on= attack mode glove off= dont care

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2024/03/01
14:17 UTC

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What is this guy doing ?

My friends gcc, it’s been a few days since he/she doing this

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2024/03/01
13:04 UTC

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He wants something from me, anybody knows what this means?

Its not just this once, its always when he tries to tell me something, sometimes it even comes with a weak little bite that says "listen to me 😡", would love to know :)

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2024/03/01
12:39 UTC

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Conure attacking me and herself? (Details in comments)

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2024/03/01
11:48 UTC

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Tangelo and Tangelo Jr.

Just another family renunion

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2024/03/01
10:16 UTC

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Any tips on how to train a bird that isn’t food motivated?

She doesn’t seem fussed by food at all. She just wants to be on you all the time 😂

3 Comments
2024/03/01
08:27 UTC

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Clingy Bird

I've had a GCC for about a year now (year on March 29th) and I've realised recently through my dad telling me that he's always screaming as soon as I leave, even if it's just downstairs..He was untamed when I got him and doesn't even trust me enough to touch him so idk what to do. I've tried music and podcasts, but it just makes him louder Any advice?

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2024/03/01
07:11 UTC

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Best avian vet in GTA/ Toronto

any recommendations for a good avian vet in toronto or gta? currently looking for a new vet because our current one isn’t too good and our bird is getting very sick

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2024/02/29
18:51 UTC

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i think he was trying to help me with my assignment

hes a bit camera shy but he was making much more noise before and after i was recording

2 Comments
2024/03/01
04:32 UTC

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Odd mouth movement?

I cant get a video, but my conure randomly started mover her beak and tongue around a lot for a few seconds, almost like a dog with peanut butter in its mouth trying to get it all out. At first i was worried she was choking on something, she had her tongue out and was moving the top of her beak around a lot, but when i checked her beak and mouth and they seemed fine, it almost looks like beak clicking but she isnt making any sounds. Anyone have any ideas?

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2024/03/01
03:08 UTC

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New Conure

My parents brought home a golden capped conure and I’m working on our bond. She is about 6 months old. She’s very sassy(most likely might be her name but we are still trying to decide.)

I’m trying to find out what treats she likes. I’ve tried jalapenos, sunflower seeds, dried papaya, and dried banana chips and she doesn’t seem to react to any of them. She lunges at my hand when she’s inside the cage but we are working on it. Honestly she seems very scared. She likes to be on her back and stay in my hand but when she did it she started shaking as if she’s scared when I start moving too much.

Vet says she is in good health but her feathers look very bad. a lot of black spots. She was with a sibling at her old home and the sibling would play rough and over preened her head. She’s currently in quarantine away from my other birds. I think my dad may have unintentionally hindered the bond because she managed to get out of the cage and he used a stick to get her back in the cage because he was afraid to use his hand.

Any recommendations or help on ways to build our bond and what to do about her fear.

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2024/03/01
02:57 UTC

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My 6 Month Old Baby Started Saying His Name Today…meet Jasper!

His Mama couldn’t be more proud! 🥰

20 Comments
2024/03/01
00:49 UTC

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Behavior Change at 5 1/2 months

Is it normal for green cheek conures to have a major behavior change at 5 1/2 months? From the day we brought our little Pinnapple Green Cheek home, she was so attached to us, loved sitting on our shoulders and in fact seemed more interested in being with us than eating. She was extremely friendly and only bit two or three times early on, and stopped when she realized it hurt us. She would be so excited when I came home from work, greeting me with dancing and screeches, wanting to leave her cage to be with me. If on her perch, when I would leave the room, she would fly and follow me. Snuggles, grooming, like really attached. On Sunday, she abruptly changed. She didn't want out of her cage, would move away from the door when I tried to open it, or if out of her cage, wouldn't come near me or my husband. She is a bit more tolerant of my 12 year old. Eating, drinking and poop are all normal. No injuries. Weight is stable. No changes in diet. She went from being such an amazingly curious, engaging, friendly bird to stand offish, disengaged and disinterested. I'm hoping this is a short phase because I genuinely miss our time together. I'm trying to just let her be but don't want her out of her cage as I don't want to have to aggressively get her back. In the past, she would easily step up any time I held my hand out wherever she was perched. Now she just flies away when I approach her and it's been hard to put her back in her cage. Once in her cage, she doesn't want to come close to me to step up to leave. Much less talkative or demanding to be let out. Movement around cage is normal. Is this normal to see such a shift in temperament? Besides patience and go slow, other advice? Hatch date was 9/13/2023.

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2024/02/29
23:28 UTC

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What's going on with my conures poop?

3 Comments
2024/02/29
23:27 UTC

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new friendo say henlo

5 Comments
2024/02/29
23:24 UTC

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Post ur wet bird pics :3

I like wet birds they look so silly

92 Comments
2024/02/29
22:53 UTC

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Training next to new bird!

We just expanded and got a new bird! The jenday in the cage named Arlo! He came to us late last night and is surely a talker compared to my Dusky Conure Jetmir! When I opened Jetmirs cage to do pre-work training (I train an hour before work and an hour after) Jetmir flew directly to Arlos cage. There seems to be lots of curiousity with Arlo from Jetmirs eyes, so I figured I would go back to small basics of recall and perch from small distance to have Jetmir still feel confident in my commands around the new bird, and also so Arlo could watch Jetmir as I hope to have Arlo as solid as Jetmir! Arlo comes from a very busy family of three kids, causing him to definitely be noise reactive. When handling him at first meeting he was doing solid step ups unless he heard the kids or a door shut in which the switch in his brain was switched and he started to attack my hand until I calmed him. He definitely has a biting problem but already shows that with enough trust and training for him to speak my language and me learning to speak his he will be a prefect bird for my life and life style! I the video you can see me offer a treat to his open door after he came closer only for him to retreat back to his cage. I understand he will seek out his own space until he is comfortable in our environment and I don’t want to rush him out of his cage yet. That being said I know his cage set up isn’t the best. This was close to how his cage was set up at his previous home and I wanted him to have comfort and safety in the new environment. Every other day I am going to replace the dowel perches for more life like branch’s and trade his plastic toys for toys he can chew! Jetmir, the dusky getting most of the training, has recently started to pluck around his chest and I am hoping adding to the flock will help as he is still getting consistent diet of chop, and has a bi-weekly rotation of 12 toys.

If anyone has any advice after reading this about how to make either of their lives better I would really appreciate it! Thank you so much!!

3 Comments
2024/02/29
21:33 UTC

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Is she ok??

Is this normal conure crackles? Or is she having a hard time breathing? She’s playing, eating, drinking etc. she’s wrapped up because she just got out of the shower and wants snuggles

8 Comments
2024/02/29
21:16 UTC

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Is it possible for a nurse to have a pet conure?

Hello everyone! I am currently a nursing student, and once I graduate and live on my own I would love to have a pet to keep me company! The one downside is, nurses work 12 hour shifts. Do you think it is possible for nurses to have pet conures? Thanks in advance!

13 Comments
2024/02/29
21:03 UTC

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Question about egg fertilization

I have a Jenday Conure. She keeps laying eggs so I was thinking of letting her have babies. I know I would need a male bird of course but how does the fertilization process work. I know this sounds stupid to some of you. However people learn by asking questions. Pic for bird tax.

3 Comments
2024/02/29
19:08 UTC

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Recall with my conure!

This is Ray he’s a rehomed sun who was in need. He was in a small cage and all seed diet, he was rehomed twice and he barely hit puberty (2) he’s extremely social and I love him so much! I recently adopted him from his past home. We have a amazing bond and I trained him to do recall in the 2 weeks of us being together.🥰

4 Comments
2024/02/29
18:09 UTC

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