/r/greencheeks

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Greencheek Conures are known for being cuddly, silly parrots that are quieter than their larger cousins and more amicable for younger owners just starting out. We love them and we hope you do too, stick around we got plenty to share!

Greencheek Conures are known for being cuddly, silly parrots that are quieter than their larger cousins and more amicable for younger owners just starting out. We love them and we hope you do too, stick around we got plenty to share!

r/Greencheeks are proud to associate ourselves with these members of the flock:

NEW r/animalsincars - Is that a kitty in a Beetle, a doggo in a Mustang or a hamster in a Stingray? Looks like you found an r/animalsincars This sub is dedicated to celebrating everything that moves, flies and swims and the vehicles that take them on adventures.

NEW r/showerbirb - Tired of being called the stimky birb? Spending hours preening with no results? Wondering why that budgie won't return your beak kisses? Perhaps you need a r/showerbirb.

NEW r/birdseatingthecamera - Henlo fren! Welcome to the ultimate crossover between our avian pals, and the cameras that they love to mlem. If you have a Kodak turned into a snac, a Cannon to bite on, a baloney flavored Sony or a Go Pro covered in jello you are in the right place and we want you to share.

NEW r/petbacking - Little pets and animals coming along for the fun in public in backpacks, frontpacks and other pet carriers!

NEW r/BirbHelp - This is a sub about helping birbs! Share your experiences and suggestions here.

r/PicsOfUnusualBirds - "a subreddit for marveling at the unusual avian species around the globe."

r/birdswitharms - "Look - up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No wait, it's a bird...with arms."

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

r/cockatiel - "This is a community for the discussion of cockatiels. Talk about anything related, or post pictures of your own. :]"

r/ShoebillStorks - "Reddit's home for Shoebill pics, gifs, videos and more. The Shoebill Stork is listed as vulnerable by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. There are an estimated 5,000-8,000 individuals left in the wild."

r/BirdsTakingTheTrain - "Welcome to our silly intensely serious subreddit for pictures and videos of birds taking the train! (And public transport in general: we also allow birds on buses, trams, and so on.)"

r/Finches - for fans of birbs that are by birth already criminal in size and fans of the father of the main antagonist in To Kill A Mockinbirb

r/parrots - "a community for the discussion of parrots. Feel free to talk about parrots in the wild, owning parrots, the pet trade, rescuing parrots, purchasing parrots, avian veterinarians, and anything pertaining to these beautiful creatures."

r/Birbsloveseed - "Here you can post birbs loving seed! Whether it’s eating or throwing, Birbs Love seed!"

r/birdsnamedfood - "The best place to post your mango and peachfaced lovebirds, strawberry finches and any other birds who are named after or share the name of food!"

special mention that if you have a Parrot in need of adoption or would like to find a parrot in need of a forever home check out https://www.reddit.com/r/parrots/comments/hpypgm/parrots_in_need_of_adoption/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=usertext&utm_name=parrots&utm_content=t3_ez6dd7

r/PartyParrot - "Welcome to the official Subbie® for Party Parrot! Party Parrot is a Slack emoji based on the legendary Sirocco, of the critically endangered Kākāpō species. PartyParrot FOREVER!"

r/frens - "This subreddit is about animals who are friends with other animals (For example: Ducks snuggling up with dogs, Cows playing tag with cats, etc)."

Friends who are not engaged in crime at all....:

r/IllegallySmol - where crime doesn't pay no matter what your species is

r/IllegallySmolDogs - where crime doesn't pay no matter how rare your pupper is

r/illegallysmolfrogs - where the cuter the frog, the smaller the crime

r/illegallysmolsneks - thisssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss is where you post the criminal sneks

Friends more wholesome than Grandma's cookies: ok, maybe that's a stretch

r/wholesome - Must be Wholesome. Remember to stick to the theme and stay relevant. All posts must be related to "wholesome" in some way.

r/beyondwholesome - Post anything that is wholesome... more than just wholesome

r/UnexpectedlyWholesome - Please remember to always express good wishes to your fellow user and to have a great day. Thank you for your interest and for being you!

r/wholesomememes - a meme that subverts a generally negative meme to be more positive, often showcasing genuine human emotion or a meme that promotes health or well-being of body, mind, and/or soul or a meme that is pure of heart, devoid of corruption or malice, modest, stable, virtuous, and all-around sweet and compassionate or a meme that conveys support, positivity, compassion, understanding, love, affection, and genuine friendship by re-contextualizing classic meme formats, and using them to display warmth and empathy

r/wholesomebpt - Screenshots of Black people being wholesome on social media, it doesn't need to just be twitter but obviously that is best. Black culture has a unique way of examining the everyday and we are here to showcase that.

r/wholesomegifs - Feel free to submit a gif or leave a wholesome comment! Enjoy your stay here! /r/wholesomegifs is a place for gifs that make you smile, or are inspirational, and generally wholesome.

r/wholesomecomics - a comic that promotes health or well-being of body, mind, and/or soul or a comic that is pure of heart, devoid of corruption or malice, modest, stable, virtuous, and all-around sweet and compassionate or a comic that conveys support, positivity, compassion, understanding, love, affection, and genuine friendship by re-contextualizing classic meme formats, and using them to display warmth and empathy or a comic with no snark or sarcasm that displays genuine human emotion and subverts a generally negative comic to be more positive

r/wholesomenosleep - Stories that are scary but have a nice twist. The nice twist can still be scary! Stories here have a horror element and end reasonably happily.

r/WholesomeNetwork - This is a public resource for the Wholesome Network. Feedback, criticism, suggestions, questions, general discussion are all welcome.

r/wholesomestarterpacks - Post your wholesome and positive starter packs here

r/wholesomeprequelmemes - this is where the fun begins

r/wholesomepics - Welcome to /r/wholesomepics! Feel free to submit a pic or leave a wholesome comment! Enjoy your stay here!

r/catscalledfood - "A subreddit dedicated to cats with food names."

r/namenerds - "A community for those interested in names. Your posts are welcome so long as they stay on topic and remain civil"

r/CatsNamedAfterFoods - "Cats named Waffles, cats named Pancake, cats named Eggo, cats named Hot Dog, etc"

r/NameMyDog - "Welcome to NameMyDog [self explanatory]"

/r/Catnames - "Where we name cats"

r/AnimalsWithFoodNames - "A place for your Butterballs, Muffins, Kitkats, Peanuts and any other animal named after a food."

r/ProperAnimalNames - "Noperopes, trash pandas, and more!"

/r/greencheeks

4,878 Subscribers

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Just chilling

0 Comments
2024/11/29
09:38 UTC

45

Kisses 😘

2 Comments
2024/11/29
02:48 UTC

38

Best Buddies

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2024/11/23
22:24 UTC

74

What’s the problem? Here?

2 Comments
2024/11/23
12:04 UTC

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Play?

So I was wondering how I could play with my boy. I take him with me to different places in the house when I have something to do there, and he’s addicted to head scratches, he’ll snuggle and owns my shoulders. He used to tear things up on his own, but recently he’s more likely to play with things if I’m around. So I decided to try disassembling this box and as long as I’m holding it or have it on me, it’s magic. Put it on the floor and play is over. Hold it too close to him and get bit. Was good for about 15-20 minutes.

1 Comment
2024/11/21
10:55 UTC

76

My 3yr old female, Maeble

My best friend

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2024/11/20
17:19 UTC

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That's a mighty fine lookin' meeting you got there. Be a shame if someone were to kick up a fuss in the middle of it.

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2024/11/18
18:37 UTC

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Sunday sleepies

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2024/11/17
22:33 UTC

4

Currently doing research

My mom used to have a Green Cheeked Conure when I was little and I’ve been thinking of getting one for myself for a few years now. I’ve done research the last few years and I believe I am ready to start looking. I do currently have a Pitbull and a leopard gecko and live in a 40ft RV, my biggest question is: is this compatible for a new bird, especially a conure? My pit is very well trained and he is very sweet and my Leo stays in her enclosure except for feeding once a week (all three will be consistently separated and monitored closely when one is out). Any advice is greatly appreciated. TYIA

7 Comments
2024/11/16
17:37 UTC

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Female or Male

I’ve had my green cheek conure for 3 months now, we were told that she is a female so I just want to make sure that she is :)

17 Comments
2024/11/15
09:25 UTC

5

Tips for Introducing Fledgling Green Cheek to existing Green Cheek

So I recently got a Fledgling Green Cheek (Chicken: First Picture) to partner with my existing Green Cheek (Turkey: Second Picture). I got Turkey about a few months back (around January) and he is pretty chill. He is not really the territorial kind of bird and gets along with my 3 dogs. When I brought home Chicken a few weeks ago, nothing much changed about him other than him being more bitey towards me than usual (but nothing concerning). When I feed them, I always put them in a neutral place and I always feed them together. Their cages are now close to each other so that they could get to know each other more.

What I noticed with Turkey's behavior is that he really likes his personal space when it comes to Chicken (and just Chicken). He often bites her when she comes close (which she always tries to for cuddles). What I've been doing to avoid the bites is to put my hand in between them before Turkey gets to bite Chicken.

Do y'all have any tips for them to not fight?

Thanks!

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2024/11/14
19:20 UTC

15

*trigger warning* watch your steps

Today i almost killed my bird. One moment they were at other side of the room, the other moment i felt something underneath my feet and a shrill scream. I saw them rushing underneath the coach. At this moment i didnt knew who i did step up on. But i could see i quickly by the way she was looking.

I tried calling my avian vet, they told me they don't treat birds anymore. Called another vet who didn't call back. I've been looking calling around for more than an hour untill i found one.

We're so lucky that they could see her today. They had her admitted to take pictures. I made a bone fracture in het shoulder, and she has lots of bruising. Luckily she just needs rest and pain medication to heal the fracture. In 10 days we will see the vet for an follow up

Right now my birds are in two separate cages to avoid her from moving to much/trying to fly. It breaks my heart hearing them call for eachother .

Hopefully she will have a good recovery.

Tltr : make sure you have an avian vet and other avian vets when they are not available. And always look out where you walk en where they are.

Ps. A picture of my birb in better feeling times, yesterday

5 Comments
2024/11/13
19:39 UTC

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Look what I got!

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2024/11/10
01:45 UTC

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please tell me stories of your bird making it back home, my bird flew away.

my precious monkey flew away last night. he loves to hangout in my bathroom chilling on a towel. all windows in the house are usually shut. i was in my room with headphones on and my door shut while he was in the bathroom. i went in there to grab him to put him to bed, but noticed the houseplant had fallen, and the towel was on the ground. i have no doubt the plant fell and scared him, causing him to fly. usually he’d fly into my room but my door was closed. i immediately went to check my parents room whose door was open, and their window was wide open.

i looked for him for hours but it was dark. i cried myself to sleep. i’ve had him for over a year and we have such a strong connection. my heart is broken. i’m at work right now and my dad put his cage in the backyard along with his phone on top playing bird noises. is there anything else i should do??

12 Comments
2024/11/06
17:31 UTC

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Help my bird lost her mate!

This is Mopar she's 8 years old, her mate just died and I'm not really sure what to do

1 Comment
2024/11/06
13:48 UTC

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Question about possible ingestion when chewing

I'm just curious how likely it is for them to ingest any of the material they chew on. I just caught Medley chewing on styrofoam in my closet, and he has also chewed on broken bits of my phone's glass screen protector.

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2024/11/04
23:31 UTC

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Any idea what this noise means?

Please excuse his feathers! I know he's looking extremely rough; he does this to himself every time he goes through a big molt. I've tried all kinds of things to help (including birdie cones of shame as a last resort) and am now resigned to it happening once or twice a year.

That aside, I've been watching videos on GCC behavior and can't find anything about this particular noise. I've always taken it to be a sound he makes when he's unhappy/dissatisfied (it sometimes precedes more obvious behaviors, like "I want to be picked up!" squats), but lately it's been something that he does almost constantly. He's in his cage? He quacks. He's out of his cage? He quacks. I hold/pay attention to him? He quacks. I carry him to different parts of the house? He quacks. I put him on his grapewood tree? He quacks. I give him treats (fruits, veggies, his favorite flavor of nutriberries, etc)? He quacks. I play movies or music for us to watch/listen to? He quacks.

Not only that, he now quacks intermittently when he's doing things that are supposed to mean he's content, like when he half-closes his eyes and grinds his beak. I'm feeling both awful (because he seems to be stuck in a state of constant unhappiness) and confused (because maybe I'm misenterpreting him?).

Insight on this would be greatly appreciated! I've had Bird for 11 years at this point and I honestly just want him to be living his best life.

5 Comments
2024/11/04
23:06 UTC

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Food Recommendations?

We have a new four month old green cheek conure and we’re having some diet issues. The pet store had her on a seed only diet, so we’re trying to slowly convert her to a pellet (Harrison’s) and mash diet. The issue is she won’t touch the mash we make for her, she will only eat the mash that she sees our other bird eating. She goes absolutely ham on the other bird’s mash and copies every thing he does, but otherwise won’t do anything he doesn’t.

Problem is that he’s a European Starling and he eats a high (at least 30%) protein diet. His mash is made up of dried insects, low iron chicken-only cat wet food, salmon, boiled chicken, and hard boiled eggs combined with seasonal veggies, orange veggies like carrot and sweet potato, fresh herbs, applesauce (plain, sugar free), blueberries and ground eggshell, vitamins, etc. We made her mash much the same way with cooked lentils, barley, black rice, mung beans, black eyed peas and quinoa instead of proteins, but she won’t touch it. We got them both identical mash jars so they will look similar, but she’s still only interested in starling mash.

At first we thought maybe she needs the extra protein since she’s still putting on her first set of feathers, but she’s exclusively eating the starling mash for four days now, and is not even interested in her original seed-only diet which we’ve left readily available. She’s steadily gaining weight and is otherwise perfectly healthy, should I be concerned?

10 Comments
2024/11/04
18:25 UTC

2

Introducing green cheek to rest of mixed flock?

We have two established birds, a ring neck dove who is going on 3 years old, a two year old European Starling. They live in a designated bird room which gives them plenty of space to fly and each have their own separate cages though 99% of the time they prefer to sleep on their shelves in the room and only use the cages for playing with toys or in their forage boxes or for travel if necessary.

We just brought home a four month old green cheek conure. She’s had all of her flight feathers trimmed and it’s really sad to watch her want to fly around with the other birds, but we got a bunch of ladders and extra perches to help her out. We left the green cheek in her cage for a week to help her stay calm and get acquainted with our fairly hectic household and she’s started imitating the starling and singing back and forth with him. The starling can say words, whistle tunes and imitate household sounds (mostly barking) and she’s already trying to copy him. We’ve had a couple of carefully supervised introductions, the dove has no interest, the starling is still a bit standoffish but is getting comfortable sharing a shoulder or a perch and sharing mash at mealtimes. The main issue I’ve seen so far is that when the baby is out of her cage, sometimes the starling will go check out her cage, at which point the baby marches herself over to the cage and tries to confront him every time. We are really hoping to foster a friendship between the starling and the conure because they are similar levels of intelligence and size (though we have a backup plan if they end up hating each other). The starling is a Velcro bird and has separation anxiety, so we were hoping a bird of similar intelligence could help him figure out he’s a bird and give him some companionship, but obviously there are risks keeping a hook bill with a straight beak. Starlings are uncommon pet birds (yes it’s legal to keep a starling, we contacted every bird rescue in the state and we were advised to keep him as a pet since we found him as a nestling frying on hot pavement and raised him by hand, otherwise they were only willing to take him if they could feed him to a raptor) so I doubt anyone has ever tried to socialize these two species, but any interspecies socialization tips would be appreciated! Baby green cheek is clearly obsessed with the starling and just wants to be next to him at all times but he’s not super into that idea quite yet lol

3 Comments
2024/10/31
15:16 UTC

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Flock all together

10 Comments
2024/10/31
06:14 UTC

33

New bird

Just got them, don't know the gender at all and they don't have a leg band, all I know is there about 18 to 20 weeks old I got them to hopefully be a companion to my other bird mopar, my other bird is 8 and her mate passed away last year he was 15, I hope I can introduce them after the quarantine period is up and I've tamed this one down, don't know yet but we'll see, any tips on taming this guy down would be great since when we got my bird and her mate they were already very tame so I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to earning their trust

6 Comments
2024/10/30
19:51 UTC

5

Thinking of getting a conure . Tips please

Im thinking about purchasing a 0ne year old GC and would like some advice I work early shifts . Up about 4.30am weekdays , Should I interact with the conure before I go to work or leave him covered and my husband or daughter take the cover off when they get up ?

I’m home at 3.30pm and he can have at least 2 hours out of his cage then . Can the duration out of the cage change as there would be days he could spend all evening out or do they prefer a set routine ? Any other tips or advice you guys could give me I would really appreciate. Thank you

8 Comments
2024/10/30
09:57 UTC

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Judge this little bully 😭

Spring is NOT Nestlés season, hes grumpy and stinky boy. He's been bullying his brother, and now his brother is grumpy too 😭💀

3 Comments
2024/10/30
07:37 UTC

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Guinness world record holder

Coconut broke the world record for most poops by a living thing. 🏆🥇

2 Comments
2024/10/27
23:43 UTC

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