Yellowsided but has orange shoulders?

Conurebreeder · Jan 28, 2013

My local petshop has a "yellow sided" for $330.00 but it has bright orange sun conure colored shoulders.. anyone know what it could be?
also, am I wrong to ask to disease test before I bring another conure home?
I noticed a few finches with pecked out eyes and masses on the head... so I might not even bring a bird home unless I can do an environmental test and disease test

thermodynamic · Jan 28, 2013

Conurebreeder said:
My local petshop has a "yellow sided" for $330.00 but it has bright orange sun conure colored shoulders.. anyone know what it could be?
also, am I wrong to ask to disease test before I bring another conure home?
I noticed a few finches with pecked out eyes and masses on the head... so I might not even bring a bird home unless I can do an environmental test and disease test

No clue on the bird's type; even a web image search revealed nothing I could find relating to your description - with luck others will have a proper answer, and I'm curious to know as well.

Pecked out eyes?! How small are those finch cages?! Man, that is horrible...

Reading that, definitely ask for a disease test to be done. Have the store pay for it if possible, but chances are management will say 'no' and wait for some rube to pawn it off onto.

Getting any potential new pet tested is always a good idea, especially for parrots as they can spread disease quickly... when I adopted Tybbi (abandoned in a pet store's bathroom), I got her to the vet ASAP. She was fine (only malnourished), but you never know...

Not all stores are that bad, but... wow... yours sounds like a real basket case and not in a good way.

Conurebreeder · Jan 28, 2013

everything is very overfilled. too many pets in tiny cages.
im all for small town shops but it is a little ridiculous.

this is the orange winged yellow sided conure

happycat · Jan 28, 2013

I think there Is a conure called "red shouldered" or something near that, maybe it is similar? Sorry, not an expert

Ash · Jan 28, 2013

Just googled and it looks like a fiery-shouldered conure x.

And those poor finches D:

I could be wrong, as I am no expert

Thingamagigs · Jan 29, 2013

Could be right Ash, might be a fiery x yellow sided GCC

Featheredsamurai · Jan 29, 2013

Sometimes pet shops have birds mislabeled, I've seen maroon bellies labeled as green cheek conures, and another time at petco they had a blue crowned conure labeled as a blue headed pionus.

Could be this type of bird

It's called the Fiery-shouldered Conure, or the Demerara Conure

MonicaMc · Feb 2, 2013

Not a fiery shouldered conure, but definitely a green cheek.

I have seen other green cheeks with yellow shoulders or bright yellow and red in the wings. Not normal, but I don't know the cause of it, either.
www.parrotscene.co.uk

And if the links work...
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=133816816774787&set=o.180475232038437&type=3 / https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/537505_133816816774787_1059438112_n.jpg
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=309601809150321&set=o.180475232038437&type=3 / https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/255044_309601809150321_54199878_n.jpg
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=309601639150338&set=o.180475232038437&type=3 / https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/255006_309601639150338_130746630_n.jpg

Maroon bellied with same trait
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=410599582292031&set=o.180475232038437&type=3 / https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/537970_410599582292031_976910106_n.jpg

Thingamagigs · Feb 2, 2013

Hey MonicaMC, if you go to the image right click on the facebook image and select "copy image URL" you can use that to imbed the image regardless of privacy settings.
Alternatively you can right click and select "open image in new tab", go to the tab it opens and you can then copy the text in the text box and use that to link the image. It will work regardless of the images privacy settings

MonicaMc · Feb 2, 2013

There's comments left with the images which, if view-able, some may want to read.

They are from a Pyrrhura Conure breeders group on Facebook that I was invited to due to my interest in mutations and subspecies, even though I am not a breeder, nor do I own a Pyrrhura conure!

Thingamagigs · Feb 2, 2013

It must be a closed group cause we can't see them

MonicaMc · Feb 2, 2013

Darn. Was afraid of that! I don't want to "steel" the images to share them, but these birds did have an abnormal amount of yellow to that area of the wing... not as much as seen in the green cheek in this thread, and it was mostly in the "pit" of the wing (underneath) rather than on the edge or on top... with the maroon bellied having the most yellow in that particular spot of the wing, but again, not as much as the green cheek in this thread.

The maroon bellied is owned by Something Cheeky, and he bought the bird that way. I could not find the image on his website.

I looked on the posters Facebook images, but either the images weren't there or the poster has a private profile. Found some other images by one of them, which I'm not sure if they'll come through or not, either.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/315986_105120359598468_1925566648_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/578665_265364243574078_123598832_n.jpg

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