Conure behaviour

[Leighroy]

Hi guysVery new to the site so please understand.... Been soaking in so much info from the site lately... I must so it has been a great help. We have just recently purchased our first sun conure calipo or clip. We've had him for seven days now and I must say he has become so fond of us and gone from being a little noisy and cheeky ( ear pearcing ) into quite a good mannered boy.... For the first five and a half days he has been very active playful fills his belly with food everyday and has become quite fond of us..... But for the past day and a half he started to become very sluggish and tied all the time almost looked depressed. Clip gets three trainning seasons a day and is always included in our day to day lives. ( he's our boy we love him.)
I rang the bird resaler a really caring honest guy sells everything and is highly respected in my neck of the woods he told me to monitor him but only for a short period I agreed and brought him in for a second opion the next day. The resaler told me that when he was brought in to the shop he was with another conure.... But a Jenday conure.... We tried clip back in the cage and instantly clip seemed himself again..... The resaler said he is a lover of birds and that parakeets can mate for life he also said take the second conure for free it means more to him that the birds are happy than the money itself.... I'd love an opion if possibly... I have many short clips of many he is all day fully devoted towards this Jenday I would really love an opion but am struggling to upload a vid to the site.

 

[MonicaMc]

If the two are opposite sex, they could hybridize.

A know that many people say that parrots mate for life, but they don't. It's possible that they can as parrots do form strong bonds, but birds can, and do, go through "divorces" and two males may fight over a hen and the winning male may get the hen. It's also been noticed that some parrots are polygamous, that is, they have more than one mate.


In the wild, most parrots are flock creatures, so it's abnormal for them to be alone within captivity. That said ,there are many happy single birds out there.



It will mean more time training and working with both, but they can be great companions!