What kind of bird is this?

[LoveMyConlan]

Saw this on facebook. Girl said it was a jenday conure. But that definitely doesn't look like one.

Any ideas? I'm curious now.

 

[Rozalka]

It is interesting. I know a lot of parrot species and generally when I don't know one I know what type (I mean "group" of species) is but in that case I don't know that. I agree he/she doesn't look like jenday conure - I was thinking about some type of mutation but it can't be a mutation. I think it can be a type of hybrid

 

[LordTriggs]

I'm thinking that's some form of hybrid, googling gives me nothing! Head shape-wise they look like they may have some blue crown in them, the bright yellow could be some jenday so maybe a hybrid between those?

Almost looks like a conure disguising themselves as an Amazon!

 

[Rozalka]

I'm thinking that's some form of hybrid, googling gives me nothing! Head shape-wise they look like they may have some blue crown in them, the bright yellow could be some jenday so maybe a hybrid between those?

Almost looks like a conure disguising themselves as an Amazon!

Conures have a ring around their eyes and this one doesn't have. I think it isn't a hybrid between two conures

 

[LoveMyConlan]

Someone commented on the photo on facebook and said it's a Bleached Half Moon conure? But I dont see any photos online of those looking like that :/ it's an odd look.

 

[LordTriggs]

Just googled "Bleached Half-moon Conure) and this is one of the top images, with a few similar looking birds. So it does look like it may be that, you can just about see the smaller ring around the eyes though it blends with the feathers quite well in that one you posted Conlan.

In fact upon closer scrutiny of the original image you can see a tiny bit of orange feathers just above the beak which is exactly where it appears on the peach-ront/Half moon Conures

just quite funny how perfectly the colour change takes place on that one, clearly disguising as an Amazon to get into their domain, maybe as a spy for the conure committee

 

[Laurasea]

Is it photo shop?

 

[Laurasea]

Oh just saw your post good work!

 

[clark_conure]

might be one of those pets called a dog or cat I hear so much about.....

Yeah I have no idea either.

 

[chris-md]

Too small for a conure. I’m betting a lovebird, perhaps a mutation thereof.

 

[Rozalka]

Too small for a conure. I’m betting a lovebird, perhaps a mutation thereof.

It can't be a lovebird - they have shorter tail

 

[Owlet]

I've gone through and looked at almost all existing parrots that this could fall under and I could find nothing. Closest I can come up with is maybe a brehm's tiger parrot with some sort of color mutation. The bird in the picture is fluffed up so it makes it hard to tell but I feel like they have similar body shape too. If you remove all the black markings and undertones from the bird in the picture bellow it would look near pretty similar to the one pictures. Body is a lightish green while the wings are darker and a yellow head. I don't really know.

 

[EllenD]

It looks like some type of species of Parakeet, not a Conure species...Honestly the first thing I thought when I saw it was it looks just like a Carolina Parakeet, but they are extinct and have been for a while, so it can't be that, but just looking at it's eyes it does look like a Parakeet of some sort...It's not an Amazon, I don't think it's a Conure due to it's eyes, I don't think it's a Poicephalus, and it's not a Ringneck of any kind. There are tons of sub-species of Parakeets...

 

[EllenD]

Sub-species of Brown-Throated Conure...Doesn't have the eye-ring, which it seems that every single other Conure species and sub-species does, either a white eye-ring or a gray/black eye-ring...

 

[Rozalka]

Sub-species of Brown-Throated Conure...Doesn't have the eye-ring, which it seems that every single other Conure species and sub-species does, either a white eye-ring or a gray/black eye-ring...

The photo doesn't work and I don't know what species you mean, I was thinking about Eupsittula pertinax xanthogenia but it has orange not yellow head and black beak. On wikipedia I see a lot of subspecies but I see photos only 4 of them


Owlet: all tiger parrots have these marks and I've never heard about keeping them as pets

 

[EllenD]

Actually, if you do a Google search for "Jenday Conure" and then go to Images, you'll see lots of them that look exactly the same as that bird, with all yellow heads and no eye-rings visible at all. So I'm going with it's a Jenday Conure...There is one sub-species of Brown-Throated Conure that also looks exactly the same except they have black beaks, and this guy has a white beak...

I hadn't ever really noticed any Conure/Jenday Conure without a white eye-ring before, but I wasn't every looking for one either. After looking at dozens of images of regular old Jenday Conures, not hybrids but just Jenday Conures, I'm pretty certain that's exactly what the bird in this photo is; it's a young bird, you can tell by it's eye being all black, so it might develop an eye-ring after it's first big molt when it's adult feathers come in.

The other dead-giveaway that it's a species of Conure is the texture of the yellow feathers on it's neck and head, if you look at it's neck and head and the feathers on them they look just like the neck and head of a Conure. So I don't think this is any big mystery or some other rare species of sub-species of parrot, or even some type of hybrid, I think it's just a young Jenday Conure...

 

[Owlet]

Sub-species of Brown-Throated Conure...Doesn't have the eye-ring, which it seems that every single other Conure species and sub-species does, either a white eye-ring or a gray/black eye-ring...

The photo doesn't work and I don't know what species you mean, I was thinking about Eupsittula pertinax xanthogenia but it has orange not yellow head and black beak. On wikipedia I see a lot of subspecies but I see photos only 4 of them


Owlet: all tiger parrots have these marks and I've never heard about keeping them as pets

Well, that's why I mentioned a color mutation.

 

[Rozalka]

Sub-species of Brown-Throated Conure...Doesn't have the eye-ring, which it seems that every single other Conure species and sub-species does, either a white eye-ring or a gray/black eye-ring...

The photo doesn't work and I don't know what species you mean, I was thinking about Eupsittula pertinax xanthogenia but it has orange not yellow head and black beak. On wikipedia I see a lot of subspecies but I see photos only 4 of them


Owlet: all tiger parrots have these marks and I've never heard about keeping them as pets

Well, that's why I mentioned a color mutation.

if you still mean tiger parrots they are too rare

 

[Rozalka]

Actually, if you do a Google search for "Jenday Conure" and then go to Images, you'll see lots of them that look exactly the same as that bird, with all yellow heads and no eye-rings visible at all. So I'm going with it's a Jenday Conure...There is one sub-species of Brown-Throated Conure that also looks exactly the same except they have black beaks, and this guy has a white beak...

I hadn't ever really noticed any Conure/Jenday Conure without a white eye-ring before, but I wasn't every looking for one either. After looking at dozens of images of regular old Jenday Conures, not hybrids but just Jenday Conures, I'm pretty certain that's exactly what the bird in this photo is; it's a young bird, you can tell by it's eye being all black, so it might develop an eye-ring after it's first big molt when it's adult feathers come in.

The other dead-giveaway that it's a species of Conure is the texture of the yellow feathers on it's neck and head, if you look at it's neck and head and the feathers on them they look just like the neck and head of a Conure. So I don't think this is any big mystery or some other rare species of sub-species of parrot, or even some type of hybrid, I think it's just a young Jenday Conure...

It can't be a young jenday conure. None of them have a white back or green belly

 

[Owlet]

The photo doesn't work and I don't know what species you mean, I was thinking about Eupsittula pertinax xanthogenia but it has orange not yellow head and black beak. On wikipedia I see a lot of subspecies but I see photos only 4 of them


Owlet: all tiger parrots have these marks and I've never heard about keeping them as pets

Well, that's why I mentioned a color mutation.

if you still mean tiger parrots they are too rare

So are spix macaws, keas, and jardines, but we have those in captivity and etc. And anyways I never claimed the bird was 100% a tiger parrot, just that's the closest I could find in terms of body shape and potential color if there was some kind of mutation.