SRSeedBurners Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 (edited) Meet Muńeca! She's a 21y.o. hawk-headed (red fan) parrot. DNA female hatched and raised at Kookaburra bird shop right here in Dallas. Some of you all may remember a member here that hasn't posted in a long while, Murfchck. She recently just asked if we'd be interested in giving this girl a new home where she can get out of her cage more. I didn't really need or want another bird but my wife said years ago that if a bird like this ever became available to us, we'd take her. Well, here she is. Going to take good care of this girl. We're not sure what to make of her yet. I've read that these birds don't make good pets, are territorial, can be very mean. I'm trying to go slow with her and back off when she warns me to. But that feather crest is too much to resist. I keep trying to give her scritches and she keeps snapping at me. She'll come around I'm sure, persistence always pays off 🤣 Edited November 2, 2021 by SRSeedBurners 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acappella Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 Congrats on the new family member, she's beautiful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbersmom Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 Beautiful! Glad to hear Murf is still alive and kicking too. I miss those who used to be around a lot and now aren't. Life happens though I know. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greytness Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 (edited) Gorgeous! Congrats! How is Murfchk? You're right! It's been ages since we've heard from her here. Please tell her we miss her! Edited November 4, 2021 by Greytness 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neoow Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 Hello Muńeca! She's a pretty little thing! I barely know anything at all about her species. Hopefully she comes round soon and settles in nicely with the rest of your flock! Good to hear about Murfchk as well! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRSeedBurners Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 (edited) 8 hours ago, Greytness said: Gorgeous! Congrats! How is Murfchk? You're right! It's been ages since we've heard from her here. Please tell her we miss her! Murfchck is trying to get out of the bird rescue operation. Both her and her husband have developed breathing issues from having all those rescue birds in the house with them. She is trying to find homes for most of her birds now. Over the years I've taken three birds from her, a conure (Tinkerbell), a whitecap Pionus and now Muneca. I would love to take all her Greys if I had anywhere to put them. Anyone want to donate a wad of cash so I can build a Greybie party barn? 🤣 She also has macaws and cockatoos that she needs to re-home. I cannot deal with those last two types of birds as they are too big, too loud and too dang destructive. Edited November 4, 2021 by SRSeedBurners 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greytness Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 You might suggest to Murfchck that she join AA and let members know about her rescue. Several people on AA have recently expressed their desire to adopt an african grey. Just a thought. If I had cash to throw your way, I would love to see you build that grey haven! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inara Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 What a pretty new gal you have there!! And what a great home she has come into. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neoow Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 How is Muńeca settling in, @SRSeedBurners? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRSeedBurners Posted January 20, 2022 Author Share Posted January 20, 2022 On 1/19/2022 at 5:18 AM, neoow said: How is Muńeca settling in, @SRSeedBurners? She has had a bit of a name change. No matter how much I want to be able to say her name 'Muneca', it doesn't roll off the tongue very easy. I started bastardizing her name and calling her 'Moo-Nikki'. Now I just call her Nikki. And since she is the biggest DIVA I have ever witnessed, her altered name goes well with the song lyrics "Hey Nikki you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind HEY NIKKI!!!". She gets to hear my cover of that song quite a lot. I'm glad she can appreciate my singing 🤣 Other than that she has taken a HUGE dislike to my wife. She will attack her any chance she gets. I know it's because she has claimed me as her very own man and Marietta can just get the heck out in her view. The only positive to this is we get to see her HawksHead flare quite a lot. She can really spread those war dress feathers and looks very stunning. But the BIZNATCH is coming with it so we all better watch out. She also makes this huge annoying sound all the time when she wants something. I realized the other day it sounds like the starter on her car has gone bad. I'll have to get it on video sometime. Now that I've heard it as a bad starter in a car, I can't unhear it. 😆 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greytness Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 I completely forgot that you have a Hawkhead! Sounds like her personality is spot on for hawk heads. Such stinkers! I bet your wife is getting in daily ducking exercises! How does she do with your flock? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRSeedBurners Posted January 21, 2022 Author Share Posted January 21, 2022 She can't mix with the others. We had an incident a few weeks ago where my Tinkerbell (conure) got out and came flying in to fight with Nikki and get her off of me. Nikki bit Tinkerbells bottom beak and I thought I was going to lose Tinkerbell. It took her a week before she could apply any pressure with her beak. I was syringe feeding her to keep her weight up. I think we're out of the woods as she's eating and preening now on her own. The whole reason we took Nikki in was because she wasn't allowed out around the macaws and then this happens. We're getting the patio glassed in soon and I should have their outdoor aviaries built by spring time. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neoow Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Wow sounds like you definitely have your hands full with her! Wishing Tinkerbell a very speedy recovery! I don't know if it's true but I always get the impression that conures think they are bigger and stronger than they actually are... I quite often see stories of them getting into scrapes where they picked on another bird and came off worse. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRSeedBurners Posted January 25, 2022 Author Share Posted January 25, 2022 On 1/24/2022 at 2:31 AM, neoow said: I don't know if it's true but I always get the impression that conures think they are bigger and stronger than they actually are... I quite often see stories of them getting into scrapes where they picked on another bird and came off worse. Tinkerbell is doing fine now. She's back to biting me and giving me strong corrections. Conures do tend to have big-billy-bad-a** syndrome. Gram-for-gram though, the scrappiest fighter of all my birds is Toby my Caique. He will take on GreycieMae and has won that battle a couple times. I don't let them all have fight-nights but sometimes the idiots will find an opportunity to get it on. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inara Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 Am so glad to hear that Tinkerbell is doing well. Whew!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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