Never thought I would love a bird so much 🥹

Just got the dreaded “surprise lip bite” and it really really hurt 😢 why Coconut? why??😢

Was taking mochi to get his nails done at an aviary shop near me. The women were baffled about the color mutation. I’m not even sure myself.

Hi everyone. My family and I took in a pineapple conure about a month ago after my neighbor abandoned her since they were moving somewhere that does not allow birds. We have no experience with birds and took her in because it was an emergency. She is very nippy and bites hard. But also sometimes she does not and will cuddle with your feet. She has good and bad days. I also think she’s hormonal which does not help her behavior. We got a hold of my neighbors and they told us she is about 7 year old female and biting has been an issue for her. I am looking to rehome her to someone that has experience with conures and has the patience to work with her. I live in Long Island, NY but am willing to travel a reasonable distance if someone is interested.

My green cheeks have been screaming at rather pretty much all morning. They’re in separate cages but this is the first time I’ve heard them do this. One is almost whistling. Are they just trying to be louder than the other?

Hi I’m looking for a breeder list (preferably in the New England area) or do birds get shipped from quality online shops like reptiles do? Is that a thing? Is it safe? Just looking for alternative options since none of the local shops have any Green Cheeks.. thanks in advance!

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

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 :)

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!

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

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??

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

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.

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?