blue crown conure

[lino]

hi guys, i am considering to include a blue crown conure in to the flock

i would love to have any expiriance based info from you guys who encounter with this conure before

 

in my country, blue crown is almost imposible to be found in the bird shop, it can be considered as one a very rare conure. i was lucky to be able to find one.

 

anyone have any expirience on this conure please share your knowladge....thanks alot:D

[thenabrd]

i don't know about blue crown conures, i have a peach front conure. but inside those little bodies, conures think they are the biggest birds ever created! they're bold and quite the character!! they're energetic little birds too, so lots of toys, all kinds of perches, and room to move around in a cage are important. i hope this helps!

[judygram]

I have a sun conure and I can attest she can be the sweetest little thing one minute then take your head off the next, she can turn moods in a second's time, she thinks she is a big bird in a little body and she doesn't back down from Josey my grey either. I know all the conures share some traits and characteristics but just goggle blue crown conure to find out exactly how they may be different from the other conures. If you do get this conure please share a picture or two so we can see it.

[Birdnut]

Hi lino,

 

I have two blue crowned conures. They are a bonded pair, so my experience with them is probably not quite typical of what you would experience with one conure.

 

I have found them to be very active and rather noisy (a single conure would probably not be as noisy). They are very intelligent little birds and can learn something virtually in one trial, if there's something in it for them. They are very good talkers. Although they speak in a cute little cartoon voice and certainly not as clearly as a grey or amazon, they are quite understandable. Mine started talking in the bird store, before they were even weaned. They have a pretty big vocabulary and pick up new phrases quickly. They love to interact with me verbally and play little word games. They use phrases in context. For example, if I hear one of them in the bird room saying, "Wanna take a bath?", I know that somebody is taking a bath and I am going to find water all over the floor. They love to swing on things: a piece of rope, a dishtowel, anything that you hold up for them. If you swing them around, they will squeal, "Wheee! That's fun! Oh, boy!" When they are tired at night, they cuddle up to each other and say, "Night, night." When I first turn on the light in the bird room in the morning, they say, "Good morning!"

 

They are very friendly and will follow me all over the house (mine are both flighted), riding on my head or my shoulder. They are also very comical. They have cute little faces and clownish behavior. They keep us laughing all the time.

 

Now the drawbacks. They are very noisy. I have heard that the blue crowned conures are not as noisy as some, so maybe they would not be as noisy if you didn't have a pair. But I think, as a rule, that conures are just noisy birds. They can be rather nippy birds, and downright aggressive in certain situations. I probably see more of this than you would, as our male probably feels obliged to be more aggressive at times, due to the presence of the female. They are aggressive toward the other birds at times, but once again, I think this is largely due to the fact that they are a pair, and that gives them a degree of dominance. I doubt if you would see this aggression much with one bird. But conures can tend to be nippy, as Judy mentioned. (We also have a sun conure.)

 

They are very confident and resilient birds. They are not as sensitive and emotional as greys. They get over things very quickly and bounce back. They are all about having fun. They take a party with them wherever they go.

 

Anyway, that's my input on blue crowned conures.

[lino]

Thanks a alot for the input guys.

Yes, I already have a conure myself. It's a cinnamon conure and I also have an Indian ringneck.

I actually read alot about them and but I feel many articles are copy and paste in to another.

So I really love to hear hands on expiriance from the friends here

 

 

The blue crown conure that I am buying is and adult wild bird. So it might be quiet a challenge for me to get him to trust me.

I am getting him today.!!!

Very excited

[judygram]

Well congrats on getting your blue crown conure, it might be a challenge since it is a wild adult but with time and patience you will win him over, can't wait to see some pictures when you get the chance.

[lino]

thanks judy, he is here

i will post some picture asap

 

he isnt as wild as he seems to be

 

when i bring him home, i realise he has a very very strong smell of "wet shoe"

i dont know how to explain it, but it is the smell of a wet shoe, that is not dried properly for days.

and i also dont know how he get such a strong smell

 

i put him on the wooden perch. he squack very very loudly and start chewing on the perch. he refuse to step up but he took food from my hand.

i will bath him well once he is more stable

[Birdnut]

when i bring him home, i realise he has a very very strong smell of "wet shoe"

i dont know how to explain it, but it is the smell of a wet shoe, that is not dried properly for days.

and i also dont know how he get such a strong smell

 

He probably just needs a bath. Our blue crowns got kind of skunky smelling in the store before we brought them home, and a bath fixed that. Ours love to play in water.

[judygram]

i realise he has a very very strong smell of "wet shoe"

Nothing a good bath won't remedy but so glad to hear he is not so wild as you first thought, just give him time to get comfortable and I can't wait to see some pics of him when you get the chance.

[mcuellar2413]

Judy,

How do Sunny and Josey get along? My sun conure and african grey are still babies but I dont' know if I should be concerned with them being so close all the time. When Samba my sun conure is out of her cage she goes right to baby Kenya and preens her and they cuddle up and go to sleep together. Samba also is attempting to feed her(not sure if she is actually getting anything). Do you think this might cause problems later?

[lino]

The smell is still there but not very strong

 

This bird is really wierd. He dint really want to play with me

He will run away if I ask him to step up from his cage

But he will scream if I am out of his sight

He know When I am home.

And will make noise.

He doesn't make noise when other family member is home.

Glad that he recognise me, but he is absolutely noisy!!

Anyway to reduce the noise?

 

Thanks

 

O, btw, I name him deepsee.

Because the way he observe and look at me really different

It's really a deep looking in to eyes

 

Other than the screaming, his other noises are super cute. Seriously cute!!!

Birdnut will agree with me I hope.

The soft noise he make melts every heart of my family member.

[lino]

Hi birdnut, knowing u have rised the blue crown conure since baby, I would like to ask some doubt.

How old does the lower beak turn black.

Is there any way to predict the sex?

 

Thanks