help, my baby is so aggressive!

[HeadlessH00ligan]

hello!
so, i have a very young black capped conure ( about 2 1/2 years old ), his name is Link ( nickname littles ) and he’s as cute as a button. problem is, he can be extremely aggressive at times.
if he follows when my other two conures follow me, he will be calmer, but sometimes when i lean down to kiss my girl conures or just play with them, he rushes next to them and tries to bite me.
this afternoon, about 40 minutes ago, i was kissing and nuzzling one of my girls, and littles rushed over and bit the EVERLOVING HECK out of my nose. it hurt so bad, so i just stood there and cried for a minute to regain my composure before just grabbing him gently ( he bit my hand a tad bit ) and putting him in his cage, where he will be for the rest of the night.
i know i probably should have acted and grabbed him immediately, but like i said i was just so shocked he did that, since he NEVER shows any warnings before biting.
he also gets aggressive when i ask him to step up on one of the three cages i have. i have to lure him with a treat which id like to stop doing, since i dont want him to think this behavior is okay.
i feel horrible leaving him in his cage because he makes little whimpers and just hides in his newspaper, but i dont know what else to do. i love this little guy so much, and i want him to like me back…
please help me!!!

 

[cupzealous]

With conures, sometimes biting isn't really intended as aggressive, but this partly sounds like cage aggression. Does it only happen around the cages? Or only when interacting with the females? He could not like that, but something also to consider is they can be very bitey birds - You said you want him to like you back. He can do that while still biting you. In the past 4 years since I got my conures I have not gone a single day without them drawing blood, and they definitely love me. This is a more extreme case, but in a lot of conures like to bite for very little reason

 

[wrench13]

Sorry I disagree with the acceptability of biting. Every parrot needs to be trained, the same way a flock in the wild does with its members. SHunning. Look it up. DO you think a flock puts up with a member that constantly bites its flockmates? Best done when the bird is young, but even older birds need to have this included when they are introduced into new relationships at their new home. My Amazon ( a species not noted for their calm and collected nature) Salty - its rare that he bites when it was not my own fault. Take last yesterday - I was busy all day and even left the house for 4 hours, which means I spent little time with him. Come evening and time for last treat and a bit of scratching, Salty lunged at me (no bite). Did I blame him? No! He was angry because I spent so little time with him. I think 95+% of the time, bites occur because it was the humans fault, not the parrots. I think most owners, and especially newcomers, do not understand how much their parrots think and feel the same as young children - the saying that they have the maturity of 3-4 yr olds is very true.

 

[HeadlessH00ligan]

With conures, sometimes biting isn't really intended as aggressive, but this partly sounds like cage aggression. Does it only happen around the cages? Or only when interacting with the females? He could not like that, but something also to consider is they can be very bitey birds - You said you want him to like you back. He can do that while still biting you. In the past 4 years since I got my conures I have not gone a single day without them drawing blood, and they definitely love me. This is a more extreme case, but in a lot of conures like to bite for very little reason

yeah, he only seems to be bitey and draws blood either when i ask him to step up on cages, or when he’s next to his mate. he does chill on me a lot, so i know he doesn’t 100% dislike me, but i just don’t get why he does this