Getting the best variety of nutritional snacks and treats into your parrot’s diet can often be tricky. It can be hard to know what’s best for them, and how you can provide the best balance in what they eat. Blueberries are a great addition to our own diets—but can conures eat them? Yes, conures can … Read more
A lot of our breakfasts would be much sadder without the noble banana. It’s one of the most popular fruits in the world, and we’re all familiar with the taste—but what about conures? We’re always trying to find new and exciting things to add to their diet to spice it up, but can they eat … Read more
What’s instantly clear to anyone starting to get into the parrot-owning scene is that there are a lot of names and species to remember. This can get confusing quite quickly, and you can forget what is what and who is who. Conures are a popular household pet—but are they actually parrots? Yes, conures are parrots. … Read more
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