Conure sleeps with head backwards and feather fluffed up.
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Kendar
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1 female green cheek conure (Bailey)
1 female pineapple green cheek conure (Loki)
Totally normal. They're weirdos
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Kiwibird
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Welcome to the forum. What your bird is doing is very normal (despite looking quite painful to us less flexible humans who's heads don't turn that way
). This is a sign your bird is comfortable enough in his new home to really curl up and not worry about threats eating him while he sleeps.
). This is a sign your bird is comfortable enough in his new home to really curl up and not worry about threats eating him while he sleeps.
LordTriggs
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that's the second most secure way they sleep. The most secure is when they sleep on their backs and give their owners heart attacks!
DoubleTake
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2 Sun Conures.
R.I.P Lily 3/1/2018 - You were my sweet baby.
Like this? The first one is Apollo, the 2nd one is Chloe... she takes after her Dad
LordTriggs
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yep that's exactly it. I'm thankful that Rio didn't like doing that. He would play on his back though. I couldn't imagine just walking in and seeing that in the cage
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OMG. I wouldn't be able to handle it. The poor bird would die of fright when I screamed its name in terror until it moved. Which it wouldn't since it had just died of fright.
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DoubleTake
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2 Sun Conures.
R.I.P Lily 3/1/2018 - You were my sweet baby.
It didnt bother me, I would poke both of them and they would grunt at me... littl brats didnt even open their eyes.
Francinna
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DoubleTake your Conures are too much!!!
Love your Photos!!!!
Love your Photos!!!!
plumsmum2005
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Adore the three little brats LOL. Heart in mouth when saw then asleep OMG!
Francinna
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The Rbird slept on his back sometimes until he became a rooster at about age 3-4...
He has never tucked his head backwards. Conures... go figure!
I do LOVE those pictures, and yes, they are horrifying. Horrifying and adorable. Conures!
He has never tucked his head backwards. Conures... go figure!
I do LOVE those pictures, and yes, they are horrifying. Horrifying and adorable. Conures!
plumsmum2005
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Surely it isnt something they do in the wild is it?
LordTriggs
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yup. Worse is seeing them having fallen from their perch onto a fluffed up towel with their head down and their tail straight in the air stuck in the corner.
I don't think I've ever screamed that loud in my life
Kiwibird
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Must be a conure thing, never seen a zon sleep on it's back like that!
Interesting note- look closely and you'll see in these pics all these birds still have one foot instinctively curled up despite sleeping on their backs
Interesting note- look closely and you'll see in these pics all these birds still have one foot instinctively curled up despite sleeping on their backs
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