gavagai
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I'm wondering whether anybody knows whether the austral conure can be found in aviculture in the US? Both of the Enicognathus spp. conures are neat birds, and there's a thread on this forum suggestion that slender-bills are occassionally found in captivity, but I'm particularly enamored of the austral conure, the world's southernmost parrot species. I'm not looking to get either right now, or really at all in the near future, but it would be reassuring to known that they can be found in aviculture here.
Plus, due to their rarity both austral and slender-billed conures are among the birds that I'd like to breed someday, assuming they exist in aviculture by that point. I'd probably start with Patagonian conures—which are rare in aviculture but not so rare its a tragedy if I have difficulty getting them breeding—but given how unusual Patagonian conures' wild nesting habits are I imagine austral and slender-billed conures would be substantially different from patties. And due to the differences in their habitat, I'd be not the least bit surprised if their breeding habits differ markedly from each other. However I cannot find any information on the austral conure's wild breeding habits and the only thing I can find on breeding them in captivity is an article from 1981.
And there's not much on the their general care either, though from what little I have found they're sweet birds. Being a mostly green parrot from a continent famous for its colorful parrots, I'd be surprised if many zoos even had them. So I'm curious whether anyone here from the US has even seen one, much less interacted with it?
Plus, due to their rarity both austral and slender-billed conures are among the birds that I'd like to breed someday, assuming they exist in aviculture by that point. I'd probably start with Patagonian conures—which are rare in aviculture but not so rare its a tragedy if I have difficulty getting them breeding—but given how unusual Patagonian conures' wild nesting habits are I imagine austral and slender-billed conures would be substantially different from patties. And due to the differences in their habitat, I'd be not the least bit surprised if their breeding habits differ markedly from each other. However I cannot find any information on the austral conure's wild breeding habits and the only thing I can find on breeding them in captivity is an article from 1981.
And there's not much on the their general care either, though from what little I have found they're sweet birds. Being a mostly green parrot from a continent famous for its colorful parrots, I'd be surprised if many zoos even had them. So I'm curious whether anyone here from the US has even seen one, much less interacted with it?
