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[Poeia]

I went to my bird store to make boarding reservations for my parakeet and a little green parrot ran up my arm, perched on my collar bone, and tucked her head under my chin. She stayed there until I removed her half an hour later. During repeat visits she was equally drawn to me (and extremely jealous if I looked at another bird.) As she had basically declared that I was her person, I had no choice but to bring her home. We've been together for a little over 23 years now.

Poeia (Onomatopoeia) is a Mitred Conure. (They don't start getting red feathers until after their first molt.) She has always believed she is an "only bird" -- even during the 17 years she shared me with a Yellow Collar Macaw named Annabella.

 

[Sunset_Chaser]

Welcome to the forum

 

[OOwl]

Welcome here! I loved your story. It's always best when the bird chooses you like that. That is special.

 

[happy410]

Super sweet story. Welcome to the forums.

 

[RavensGryf]

Hi, Poeia is beautiful! Welcome.

I'm not sure where you are located, but several years ago, I was outside a local shopping center here in Southern Ca. (Southwest US) and in a large tree right there, was a HUGE flock of Mitered Conures! Wild conures foraging, it was fun to see so close. We have several species of conures and Amazons here.

 

[itchyfeet]

Awww! That has to be one of the sweetest stories!
Welcome

 

[Allee]

Welcome to the forums! Thank you for the lovely introduction and for sharing beautiful Poeia's story!

 

[Flboy]

Welcome, awesome first love!

 

[Poeia]

Thanks for the welcome.

Hi, Poeia is beautiful! Welcome.

I'm not sure where you are located, but several years ago, I was outside a local shopping center here in Southern Ca. (Southwest US) and in a large tree right there, was a HUGE flock of Mitered Conures! Wild conures foraging, it was fun to see so close. We have several species of conures and Amazons here.

I'm in New York City. There's a large flock of Cherry Head Conures in San Francisco. There was a [ame=http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=parrots+of+san+francisco]book and movie[/ame] about them, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. I read the book (it was pretty good) but didn't see the movie.

All I know of in NY is a large flock of Quakers on City Island but I've never been out there.

 

[Christinenc2000]

Hi and Welcome. I love hearing stories of people that have had there Parrots for a long time.

 

[Birdman666]

1. You've been picked.

2. Don't argue. Resistance is futile.

I used to work in SF, and had lunch in the park where they forrage during the day. Fun to see.

I'd like to see the wild Red Lored Amazons that migrate to Temple City one of these days.

 

[Terry57]

Hello and welcome! Poeia is gorgeous, and I love the story of how you two met

 

[BIRDIGIRL]

Hi I loved reading your story...so lovely how she picked you out of all the people coming into the petstore. Ťhey always call the shots

 

[RavensGryf]

Thanks for the welcome.

Hi, Poeia is beautiful! Welcome.

I'm not sure where you are located, but several years ago, I was outside a local shopping center here in Southern Ca. (Southwest US) and in a large tree right there, was a HUGE flock of Mitered Conures! Wild conures foraging, it was fun to see so close. We have several species of conures and Amazons here.

I'm in New York City. There's a large flock of Cherry Head Conures in San Francisco. There was a [ame=http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=parrots+of+san+francisco]book and movie[/ame] about them, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. I read the book (it was pretty good) but didn't see the movie.

All I know of in NY is a large flock of Quakers on City Island but I've never been out there.

That was an interesting movie, I didn't read the book . These ones around here are definitely Mitered, with the mottled red patches on the head and green juveniles. Quakers, I have rarely seen at all besides in pics, since legally no one can own one out here.

 

[MonicaMc]

Cherry headed conure juveniles are 100% green.

Mitred conure juveniles have a red patch right above the beaks!


Both can be found in southern California.




And there might be a flock of mitreds in New York, too? Don't know if they are still alive or not.

https://wildparrotsny.wordpress.com/tag/queens-conures/

10,000 Birds | Mysteries of the Mitred Parakeets



My first conure was a cherry headed conure, so I've read the book, seen the movie in theaters (first in SF near the park - saw the bird's right after the movie! - second with Mark Bittner where I live), and of course seen the birds!

My second conure is a mitred. I took a trip to Maui some years ago and was hoping to see the mitred flock there. Unfortunately, didn't get to see them, but it was on my return back that I saw the movie and saw the cherry heads in person for the first time! Even got to feed them prior to the ban!



It's nice to see another red head lover! :heart:

 

[RavensGryf]

Well, none of these out of a HUGE flock had solid read heads such as the Red Masked (cherry headed do) . Any amount of small red patch would not be very easily distinguishable from 'solid' green anyway, while foraging among a large, shaded, leafy tree, even though it was fairly close. Guess I should have brought my binoculars for technical field observation and accurate species identification in case I somehow needed it at a later date? Lol. What was definitely visible was that the majority of the flock did have the characteristic motled head pattern of the Mitered, not the Red masked. Not that this even matters !

 

[MonicaMc]

RavensGryf, I didn't doubt that you saw mitreds! I know that a lot of people don't know about the color difference between the two species as juveniles, which is why I mentioned it.


I'd love to see the flocks someday! Was supposed to head down to southern California this weekend, but I don't know if I'd be in the right area to see any feral parrots.