marceldacs317
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- Jul 31, 2013
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For the past year I have been considering getting a more advanced bird as a step up from my budgie that I have taken care of for 5 years. As strange as it sounds I want to have a bigger bird opposed to a small bird like a budgie. However I'm not talking huge like cockatoos and macaws. Budgies are small and do everything very rapidly such as stepping up. This is very difficult to explain, but I would like a bird that because is larger, he/she steps ups slower, is heavier, and feels like more to handle. Whichever bird i get, It will be a single bird. I live in a rather large condo so a quieter bird would be better. However, it doesn't have to be dead silent all day, a few loud squawks here and there OR constant chattering is fine, just not constant loud squawking that sun conures are infamous for. I think that maybe the fact that the condo is in the middle of the city surrounded by traffic beeps and honks would help, perhaps making loud squawks sound less extreme to neighbors? I have always been interested in conures since i admire the little ring of white around their eyes which i find adorable. I have pretty much eliminated sun conures from the list due to their noisyness, but could i get away with it if i got a female (again i live in a noisy city but don't be afraid to tell me i shouldn't)? How about a female GCC? I know they aren't as noisy as sun conures and as long as she doesn't scream constantly for the entire day, i will be fine. a scream here and there is acceptable and so is regular chatter. One behavior i notice with conures and other birds is eating with the feet. What i mean by this is for example holding a piece of popcorn with a foot while munching out of it. Do all conures do this? What about Quakers, meyers, or any other species that anyone would like to suggest to me. I have looked at local breeders and see that in addition to conures, they have quaker parrots and meyer parrots. Do they cuddle as much as conures? Do they have that awesome eating with foot behavior. What about their sound level. Please suggest any other species.
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