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 Post subject: Re: How to make your parrot happy?
PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 4:01 am 
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Thanks everyone. I think my conure is very happy being a single bird. Every time I let him out of his cage he flies to me and run up to my body for me to cuddle him up. My sun conure is like a puppy with feathers and flight. He is VERY cuddly. Thats exactly what I wanted in a bird and thats exactly what i got.

JessiMuse, I have a lot of toys but I don't have any foraging toys. I have always had cockatiels and they never had any interest in foraging toys. They would always just simply walk to their food bowl instead. I have then put it in my head that parrot don't like foraging toys. I never knew that only tiels didn't like the challenge. Ill make some for him. Ill get some ideas from youtube. Thanks.


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 Post subject: Re: How to make your parrot happy?
PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 6:26 am 
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There might be other birds besides cockatiels that don't like too much of a challenge. The bird's feeding habits in the wild have a lot to do with it. Cockatiels are ground feeders and that's not very challenging so they expect their food to come fairly easily. Rain forest birds are usually canopy feeders which is a lot more challenging so they enjoy food that takes some work to retrieve. There's a cool word for this desire to work for food that some animals have - it's called contrafreeloading.

According to http://eol.org/pages/1177978/details "Sun conures are found only in tropical habitats, preferring to live on open savannah or within dry savanna woodland. They are also commonly found in scrublands (usually along the Amazon riverbank) and forested valleys, as well as in coastal and seasonally flooded forests. Preferring an altitude of less than 1200 meters, these birds sometimes live in valleys or near mountain slopes. They tend to inhabit palm groves and anywhere where trees or bushes are fruiting profusely. They may require post-fire habitats and are sensitive to human activity such as cattle grazing. These birds have not been widely studied in the wild because they only reside in largely undeveloped parts of the country that are difficult to access. "

It sounds like they're somewhere in between ground feeders and pure tree feeders, since their habitat seems to generally be less densely forested than some other species. But they do eat from trees and bushes. You'll have to experiment to find out how much of a challenge your sunny likes, but he'll probably enjoy it more than a cockatiel does.

BTW B is a he!!



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 Post subject: Re: How to make your parrot happy?
PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 8:02 am 
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tielfan wrote:
BTW B is a he!!
I think you confused a new member even more. now she/he will be thinking who B is :)



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 Post subject: Re: How to make your parrot happy?
PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 8:43 am 
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B is CrazyConure. If you look at the username info on the left side of the post, there's a place where people can list their name. It says "B" on CrazyConure.



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 Post subject: Re: How to make your parrot happy?
PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2015 5:32 pm 
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I know who B is but I never paid any attention to that tiny field with the name



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