Pellet diet specifically formulated for your Conure is recommended in order to meet their recommended dietary nutrition. This also prevents the Conure from becoming too picky. Enriched seed mixtures designed for your Conure are also great as long as your Conure isn't only eating his favorite seeds and discarding the rest. To supply calcium, your Conure should have a Cuttlebone in it's cage at all times.

Although pellets can provide your Conure with the ideal nutrition you should also be sure to include variety in your Conure's diet. Giving your Conure a variety of foods will inspire them to eat. Conure love fruits, nuts, beans, legumes, grains and vegetables(no avocado). You will enjoy seeing them flurry excitedly to their dish at each feeding time.

Your Conure should have water readily available at all times.

Conure droppings should be removed daily and the bottom of the Cage disinfected at least weekly.

Use Gravel Paper already cut to size and made especially for bird cages. This is the cleanest and easiest low maintenance way to go. It will absorb spilled water and droppings.

Once a month you'll want to disinfect the walls of the cage to protect your Conure's health. The Water Dispenser and Feeder Bowl should be rinsed out daily and disinfected weekly. This helps protect against harmful bacteria. Cage Cleaners disinfect and dissolve hard dried-up droppings.

Trim your Conure's nails and beak. Wing clipping is also recommended if you want to limit or eliminate the bird's flying abilities. If you do not feel comfortable trimming or clipping, an avian veterinarian or breeder will do it for a small fee.

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Conures are active, playful, bold, and affectionate. They can all make great pets and many learn to talk. Prospective owners must be aware that most conures do have a loud, harsh voice at times.

Overall, conures are affectionate clowns who are a whole lot of fun to own. They're great at learning tricks. Some conures are are one-person birds, others more out-going.

All conures like to chew and they should be provided with wooden toys to amuse them and satisfy their chewing desire. They need toys to keep them busy.

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Conures are a diverse, loosely-defined group of small to medium-sized parrots. They belong to several genera within a long-tailed group of the New World Parrot subfamily Arinae. Conures are either large parakeets or small parrots that are found in the western hemisphere. They are analogous in size and way of life to the Old World's Rose-ringed Parakeets or the Australian parakeets. All living conure species are found in Central and South America; the extinct Conuropsis carolinensis or Carolina Parakeet was an exception. Conures, as the term is used by aviculturists, include only the genera Aratinga and Pyrrhura, as well as several single-species genera and one double-species genus*.

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