Hey everyone!

I’m a long time lurker and commenter, but I’m posting this great update in my life! I’ve adopted a 3 month old green cheek conure today and I’m just so thrilled. Recently, I have been scrolling through my old videos and pictures of my Peaches. He was 8 years old and my neighbors never warned us that they were releasing toxins into the air, toxins that went into the house and ended the lives of my Peaches and 2 rats. He was my bestest friend, and my current boyfriend is the ONLY other person besides myself that could handle Peaches.

Now we meet this baby girl! I haven’t thought of a name, but I know I want it to be nerdy and from one of my many favorite video games! She’s been sitting in my local pet store since she was about a month old and I visited her often enough that she eventually got excited to see me and upset when I left. I couldn’t keep breaking her heart and my own, so I caved in and used my tattoo savings!

Mango’s been playing for like an hour now 😭😭

I get that he's doing it for attention, but it's gotten to the point that I'm considering selling him. It's not like I don't pay attention to him, but this makes me want to interact with him less and less since gaming is my main hobby and I can't even play for any amount of time without him getting aggressive. he's injured me and drawn blood from me on multiple occasions.

Side note: I've come to the conclusion that conures are not the parrot for me (I have other species that I much prefer the temperament of), but I can't exactly put him up for adoption since the standard of care where I'm from for parrots is very bad. I'm sure practically no one would feed him his proper diet and give him his proper set up but me, and I've had him for a few years, so ofc I feel bad.

Won't let me move my thumb away.

We're bringing home this 3 month old baby later this week. We were told she's a Jenday but Google is telling us she's a Sun Conure because there's yellow on her wings and an orange spot at the top of both wings (more on left wing) and more orange on belly.

What're your thoughts? Recommendations on first few days home?

Bramble likes hiding in my hair lol. He cosies up to the side of my neck and makes happy noises, until I move, then he bites me.

Still having a load of biting problems with him though, little bugger. We're currently sat in front of his new climbing tree in the hopes he eventually hops on it.

I've been keeping a pet cockatiel for a couple of months now, and while she's very sweet and steps up on my finger whenever i go to her, I've not yet been able to train her past that.

In comparison, my conures which for the first 2 weeks would get a heart attack if i so much as looked at them are now chasing me around the house. They're really smart birds!

I use sunflower seeds to entice them.

After getting herself stuck on some sticky stuff and losing a few feathers and traumatising herself and me, Polly decided to have a good shower.

I’m so excited to have her! Overly attached

Hi Any good bird boarding centre in Dubai or Sharjah? Pointers pls

I love her and how much we have bonded

Look at all these chicken running around

If you live in Taiwan and wants to know the location just comment Edit：food/drink separate from the birb you finished your meal then move to the place you can interact with birb

What is my female sun conure doing with its mouth? Just noticed this. The other male is fine.

Update: Now normal. Probably something stuck in the mouth.

Actually heinous behavior. Turned around for legitimately 1 sec to fill up his water bowl so I can give him his new bowls this morning... and then all I hear is a loud clang... then he hit this stance. 🤨

She’s rocking back and forth and super quiet and slow, i don’t know if she’s just tired or what, it is later in the day and really quiet and dim right now

I tagged as injured, but that's so anyone triggered by images of plucking can avoid it. He's not injured. He was, at most, sick.

The 3rd and 4th pictures are from December 2024. He had actually grown a few feathers back on his belly after a brief break, but was much worse within a week. Harley Quinn was 19 years old. He had started seriously plucking and we couldn't get him to stop. We'd been to 2 different vets and no permanent solution was provided. We had tried meloxicab (3 ml) and gabapentin (0.02 ml), but by themselves they weren't working. He'd get better, then worse, again. He eventually had NO feathers from just below his chest - including his legs, his entire back under his wings, and was starting to completely pluck everything from his wings (except the flight feathers).

We finally found a new vet and they suggested several things:

• Higher dose of gabapentin for pain
• X-rays to check for abnormalities (5th & 6th pictures; I could hear him SCREAMING from the other room when they took the x-rays. It was terrible)
• Treat for bornavirus

He was diagnosed with arteriosclerosis from the x-rays, given a couple injections of celecoxib for the bornavirus (yeah, he screamed from those, too. He wouldn't even look at me for a couple hours afterwards), and permanent daily medications:

• 0.04 ml gabapentin twice a day (general pain; he's 21 years old - hatched in March 2005)
• 0.03 ml isoxsuprine hcl twice a day (for the arteriosclerosis)
• 0.02 ml celecoxib once a day (for the bornavirus)

The first 2 pictures show how he's regrown ALL his feathers. He's even doing short flights and is overall acting like a much younger bird, again.

I'm not saying this treatment will work for other cases of plucking, but it worked wonders for Harley.

Edit: corrected dosage values

Are there any good avian vets in or near Oswego County NY? The only avian vet I know of is at Cornell which is over an hour away, and they either take emergency same day visits or schedule you months out. I’m looking for someone who is a specialized, knowledgeable avian vet & will see my bird within a couple days.

Hi, we have a GCC hatched 19th Feb (male) . He did seem like he had “bonded” with my partner (male) the most as he would actively fly to him more and choose to be on him the most. Since recently he started to bite him and it has gotten progressively worse it’s gotten to the stage he can’t be out the cage when my partner is home due to him actively flying to him and biting him any chance he gets. No one strokes his back , no mirrors in his cage . Is there any suggestions on what we can do to try stop this 😢

I’m looking at getting this Mcage double stack cage for my birds and wanted to see if anyone here has actually owned this exact cage or knows anything about it.

Mcage X-Large Durable Wrought Iron Double Stackers Breeding Bird Parrot Cage with 1/2” bar spacing. It’s listed on Walmart and is about $380.

The only thing making me hesitate is that the exact listing has very few reviews. It has a 4.8-star rating, but only 5 ratings and just one written review. The seller, ROWLAND DIRECT WHOLESALE, has over 600 reviews with a 4.1-star rating, and I’ve seen decent reviews on some of their other Mcage cages. I have seen 0 reviews or videos about this cage online and I don’t see it being sold anywhere but Walmart and UBuy.

I’ve looked at a lot of double-stack cages, but this one seems like a pretty good size for the price. I just want to make sure I’m not overlooking something before spending around $380 on it.
Thanks!