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

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

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

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

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

Any suggestions to get my boys to bond? I know it’s not always possible but I would like for my OG boy Chief, up front to be friends with Kirby, in back. They seem to not want anything to do with each other. They speak to each other but that’s it.

Im trying to train my GCC and she loves Nutriberries, but they're expensive and too big. What do yall use? Also what youtube videos have been besy for you?

Hi all- curious on a specific situation. I don’t use candles, sprays, or any teflon materials. But I currently have an ant outbreak inside my apartment. The rest of the complex is getting pest control spray done and I feel like this can be toxic to my birds given their sensitivity to everything else. Has anyone encountered this situation? I’m guessing I can see what nontoxic options there are online but wondering if anyone else has had pest control issues and how they handled them with their birds.

Hey guys my girl Peanut has been biting a lot, was just wondering if there could be any reason to her behaviour or some tips to get her to stop biting. Thanks :)

Will two males be able to live together? Just got the dna results back and both are males.

A while ago i noticed my birds' nails were getting a bit long, but not long enough to trim at the time. Later, i noticed their nails were back to a normal length. I notice that they will sit and nibble their nails when preening each other or themselves. They never trim too short, but i wonder if anyone else experiences this with their gccs or if this is a stress response like a human chewing its nails?

Hello, whenever I’m scratching my girl and I touch this feather she bites me or gets a little fright I think. Is it a new feather or something else?

Would something like a Madeira Single be appropriate for a GCC?

This is my girl Peanut, she is 4 years old and we adopted her in July this year.

So this green check conure just randomly came into our house and it was just chilling in our house. It ate some of our food and we decided to you know try and contact it's owners but I couldn't find them. Some guy said he lost his green conure but he said that this wasn't "his". And after trying for days we just gave up. In the meantime which is like about(5 days) I learned alot about conures like what food should I give them, what their behaviour is like. And idk I just bonded with it. But here's the thing, he bonded with me and slept on me, he even let me held him. But I don't really have a lot of time and these 5 days I have had lots of free time but in normal days I really don't have time. So if I find it's owner I'll give it away or give it away to another family.

Should I discourage the rubber ducky cage fights? Hedwi always wins, but I don’t know if that’s good or not, he screams and fights the rubber duck until it falls on the floor.

Can anyone determine the gender?

I need help on what to do, my conure just hit the ceiling fan and landed on my bed, there were several feathers that came out when he got hit. I brought him downstairs and he's doing okay, he can walk and he even flew to the chandelier when he got scared, but he has a bald spot near his head and there is small blood due to some of the growing feathers being torn out. He can walk and is fine/receptive, I've been watching him for the past 15 minutes, do you think I should take him to the vet?? what should I do?? Hes breathing normal and is grooming his feathers as of right now

My bird was originally owned by a young couple who then had a baby who couldn’t sleep because of the bird’s noise. They had him since summer and I took him home with me on March 3. Diet was mostly seeds. I tried to switch things around with little success, and then we ended up with feather plucking. Plumage started to return but nothing lasted, and Kazys was now a gray bird. The fact that he wouldn’t leave the new feathers be was what convinced me he needed to go to a vet. Vet suggested all the usual. I had already tried to get him to eat pellets, but all I could find was Nutribird, and he wasn’t interested. But one day, many months or over a year since I had tried to get him to eat them, I finally saw him eating one! And that continued. In the meantime, before that little miracle, the vet had suggested trying NutriBerries. Wouldn’t touch them, not even when I broke them up. Meanwhile, he developed a taste for Harrison’s pellets and stopped eating the NutriBird. I wasn’t sad. But I kept giving him NutriBerries, breaking some up and leaving some whole, he might have tasted a single seed broken off, but I was never sure. So today, maybe six months later, I finally see him with an entire NutriBerry in his foot happily eating away! (And that’s the picture.) And plumage is returning with not much in the way of plucking. I guess the reason I am posting this is because some of the things we try for our birds seem impossible. They only seem that way. It also took over two years to develop the sort of bond with Kazys where I am no longer bleeding in various places. There are still things I am working on with him, but my experience until now has taught me that with lots of patience, it’s all possible.

I have a very aggressive green cheek conure and I just dont know what to do with him anymore. We barely have a relationship and i barely take him out anymore because im afraid of him. For context i got the bird when i was 12 (yes i didnt realize what I was getting myself into, and i now realize this was irresponsible i was 12) from a man who had a house full of birds he was just trying to rehome quickly. He was about 7 months old when i got him. However i did thoroughly research him and try to make sure i was taking good care of him. He has a huge cage tons of toys and i spent hours a day with him tried everything but we still never really bonded. As time went on i will admit i spent less time with him when I went to college. But when I did hes just so aggressive. Anytime i put my hand near him he bites me till i bleed, even hand feeding him treats he ignores the treat and tries to bite my hand. He wont let me change his food and water bowls without trying to attack me. When he is out he flys and tries to get on peoples heads. I feel so bad I want him to come out of the cage and live a happy life but me and my family are just so scared of him. Any advice is really appreciated!!

I just became a GCC owner and it happened to be more or less an adoption, this little one was a pandemic pet and was surrendered due to no one being able to take care of it (not sure if it’s a male or female) and then it landed into my life. I’m relatively familiar with these little sassy birds and had been looking to get one since I found out they existed just around the pandemic as well but had been waiting for the right time. Anyway, I had my first night with it and I have a pair of budgies that have no problem sleeping in a covered cage so I’d thought I’d do the same, well that made the bird restless, vocal and almost anxiously move around the cage to see around by any light that came through. I gave it around a minute to see if it would settle down but alas took off the blanket and threw it over my shoulder to get it out of the way and decided to let her out to walk down, well low and behold she flys to me and burrows under the blanket and she just stays there. I was not prepared for the instant attachment as I’ve usually dealt with birds that are more stand off-ish😂 I ended up sleeping on the couch (to not give myself wiggle room) with a pineapple GCC every so often moving under the blanket. The question is does anyone have advice on how to discourage this, how do I make his cage more comfortable () he came with his own cage) or are those fuzzy huts or like tents for birds okay in this case, I love the bird but I can’t sleep WITH the bird from the fear of crushing it in my sleep.

TLDR- New bird hates having cage covered for the night, ended up sleeping the night with the bird burrowed under a blanket on my shoulder, and that was his freewill. I need advice on how to discourage this, or are those fuzzy huts or tents okay, goal is make him sleep in his cage at the very least.

Hi! I just got my first conure (with my fiancee who has owned a dusky headed before). She's a pineapple GCC with a HUGE personality! But I have fake nails and she absolutely hates them. Rips them off which is insanely painful. Also changes how I've been training her to step up, I can't do a normal 1 or 2 fingers out, I have to do my whole hand with my fingers all tucked in. I also have a bunch of piercings (tragus, earring, cartilage, nose) and have an engagement ring I always wear which she goes after. Any advice?

Also! Since I'm a newbie and have done all the basic research (diet, cage size, tricks, interacting with my 4 cats, etc.), what is something that I might not know that is important?