I was having breakfast with my conure the other day and as I was peeling my orange, I realized I had never given him an orange before. He kept flapping over and seemed very interested, but I really wasn’t sure if it would be safe for him to eat. Not to mention the fact that … Read more
A friend of mine is in the process of moving house, and he’s been trying to get me to take a lot of his stuff off his hands. It’s a long way they’re moving, so they want to travel as light as possible. One thing he found while rummaging through the house was several large … Read more
I was talking to some friends the other day about how long we’d all had each of our parrots. We went around all of us, and all had pretty impressively old parrots, but the oldest among them was one of my friend’s pineapple conures that he had for over 25 years. I knew parrots could … Read more
As delicious as the flavor of lemon is, it’s not something many of us just eat by itself. We usually apply this same logic to our pets. We can’t and won’t eat lemons on their own because their so sour, so neither can our parrots. What about conures, though? Can they eat lemons? Yes, conures … Read more
I have always loved videos of talking birds. I watch videos of parrots talking to other animals, humans, the television, and even stuffed animals. I saw the most adorable video the other day of a cockatoo (under supervision) petting a small puppy. The woman holding the puppy told the cockatoo, “tell him you love him,” … Read more
I’ve recently welcomed a new species of parrot into my home that I’ve never owned before: the beautiful conure. We’ve been getting to know each other and have been hitting it off really well. I’ve been learning all of his different behaviors and what they mean, but there’s one that I’ve been struggling to get … Read more