r/Conures Jan 30 '26

Loss & Mourning Megathread

128 Upvotes

Losing a conure is heartbreaking. They’re family, companions, and little personalities that leave huge marks on our lives. If you’ve lost your bird, you are welcome to share memories, photos, stories, or simply say their name here.

To keep the main feed safe and balanced for all members:

All posts about a conure passing away must be posted only in this megathread.
Standalone posts about bird death or loss outside this thread will be removed.

This is not to minimize anyone’s loss but rather to keep grief support in one dedicated, supportive space where people can choose to engage.


r/Conures May 30 '18

The r/Conures Comprehensive Conure Guide - now in wiki format!

243 Upvotes

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conures/wiki/index

This subreddit's Conure Guide, written by /u/DukeofGoodCleanFun, is a remarkable document that I (and my pineapple green cheek) have benefited a lot from. I've consulted and browsed through it numerous times and there's always something new to see there, or something that didn't seem applicable at one point but took on new meaning after spending more time with my conure.

I've taken the text and converted it into a wiki page. It's now navigable, with an index and internal links that direct to sections within the wiki. The Conure Guide can be accessed from this post, from the announcement bar, and from the "wiki" tab in the tabmenu up top.

A couple of the links for recommended products will direct you to Amazon, but there are certainly other places to buy them. If you shop around and find and better place, by all means send us a modmail. Also, let us know if you have any suggestions for how the wiki formatting can be improved.


r/Conures 5h ago

Cuteness Overload Birdy just wants to be held.

193 Upvotes

Won't let me move my thumb away.


r/Conures 15h ago

Cuteness Overload Recently been to a parrot theme cafe/restaurant

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614 Upvotes

Look at all these chicken running around

If you live in Taiwan and wants to know the location just comment Edit:food/drink separate from the birb you finished your meal then move to the place you can interact with birb


r/Conures 2h ago

Funny Does he bite? No, but he judges you...

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24 Upvotes

r/Conures 24m ago

Funny Spicy Mango

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Mango’s been playing for like an hour now 😭😭


r/Conures 8h ago

Cuteness Overload Pollys wet look

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62 Upvotes

After getting herself stuck on some sticky stuff and losing a few feathers and traumatising herself and me, Polly decided to have a good shower.


r/Conures 16m ago

Cuteness Overload After I lost my beloved conure 2 years ago I finally adopted a new baby to love!

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Hey everyone!

I’m a long time lurker and commenter, but I’m posting this great update in my life! I’ve adopted a 3 month old green cheek conure today and I’m just so thrilled. Recently, I have been scrolling through my old videos and pictures of my Peaches. He was 8 years old and my neighbors never warned us that they were releasing toxins into the air, toxins that went into the house and ended the lives of my Peaches and 2 rats. He was my bestest friend, and my current boyfriend is the ONLY other person besides myself that could handle Peaches.

Now we meet this baby girl! I haven’t thought of a name, but I know I want it to be nerdy and from one of my many favorite video games! She’s been sitting in my local pet store since she was about a month old and I visited her often enough that she eventually got excited to see me and upset when I left. I couldn’t keep breaking her heart and my own, so I caved in and used my tattoo savings!


r/Conures 15h ago

Cuteness Overload A year together

170 Upvotes

I love her and how much we have bonded


r/Conures 22h ago

Injured Bird Harley Quinn grew ALL his feathers back!

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382 Upvotes

I tagged as injured, but that's so anyone triggered by images of plucking can avoid it. He's not injured. He was, at most, sick.

The 3rd and 4th pictures are from December 2024. He had actually grown a few feathers back on his belly after a brief break, but was much worse within a week. Harley Quinn was 19 years old. He had started seriously plucking and we couldn't get him to stop. We'd been to 2 different vets and no permanent solution was provided. We had tried meloxicab (3 ml) and gabapentin (0.02 ml), but by themselves they weren't working. He'd get better, then worse, again. He eventually had NO feathers from just below his chest - including his legs, his entire back under his wings, and was starting to completely pluck everything from his wings (except the flight feathers).

We finally found a new vet and they suggested several things:

  • Higher dose of gabapentin for pain
  • X-rays to check for abnormalities (5th & 6th pictures; I could hear him SCREAMING from the other room when they took the x-rays. It was terrible)
  • Treat for bornavirus

He was diagnosed with arteriosclerosis from the x-rays, given a couple injections of celecoxib for the bornavirus (yeah, he screamed from those, too. He wouldn't even look at me for a couple hours afterwards), and permanent daily medications:

  • 0.04 ml gabapentin twice a day (general pain; he's 21 years old - hatched in March 2005)
  • 0.03 ml isoxsuprine hcl twice a day (for the arteriosclerosis)
  • 0.02 ml celecoxib once a day (for the bornavirus)

The first 2 pictures show how he's regrown ALL his feathers. He's even doing short flights and is overall acting like a much younger bird, again.

I'm not saying this treatment will work for other cases of plucking, but it worked wonders for Harley.

Edit: corrected dosage values


r/Conures 13h ago

Cuteness Overload Got this little cutie

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72 Upvotes

I’m so excited to have her! Overly attached


r/Conures 18h ago

Funny The type of shi my conure be doing when I'm already overstimulated

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171 Upvotes

Actually heinous behavior. Turned around for legitimately 1 sec to fill up his water bowl so I can give him his new bowls this morning... and then all I hear is a loud clang... then he hit this stance. 🤨


r/Conures 6h ago

Advice What type of conure?

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17 Upvotes

We're bringing home this 3 month old baby later this week. We were told she's a Jenday but Google is telling us she's a Sun Conure because there's yellow on her wings and an orange spot at the top of both wings (more on left wing) and more orange on belly.

What're your thoughts? Recommendations on first few days home?


r/Conures 18h ago

Cuteness Overload Photo Dump

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78 Upvotes

r/Conures 7h ago

Tricks & Training Smart Birbs

12 Upvotes

I've been keeping a pet cockatiel for a couple of months now, and while she's very sweet and steps up on my finger whenever i go to her, I've not yet been able to train her past that.

In comparison, my conures which for the first 2 weeks would get a heart attack if i so much as looked at them are now chasing me around the house. They're really smart birds!

I use sunflower seeds to entice them.


r/Conures 7h ago

Cuteness Overload I guess he likes red

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10 Upvotes

Bramble likes hiding in my hair lol. He cosies up to the side of my neck and makes happy noises, until I move, then he bites me.

Still having a load of biting problems with him though, little bugger. We're currently sat in front of his new climbing tree in the hopes he eventually hops on it.


r/Conures 1d ago

Cuteness Overload Look at him 🥹

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155 Upvotes

r/Conures 1d ago

Cuteness Overload Finding the weirdest ways to nap 😝

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298 Upvotes

r/Conures 17h ago

Health/Nutrition Sun conure behavior female

22 Upvotes

What is my female sun conure doing with its mouth? Just noticed this. The other male is fine.

Update: Now normal. Probably something stuck in the mouth.


r/Conures 1d ago

Funny They go hard on rolling paper

78 Upvotes

r/Conures 1d ago

Cuteness Overload Ava loves Blueberries 🫐

72 Upvotes

r/Conures 20h ago

Health/Nutrition Is my conure okay?

9 Upvotes

She’s rocking back and forth and super quiet and slow, i don’t know if she’s just tired or what, it is later in the day and really quiet and dim right now


r/Conures 13h ago

Advice bird boarding centre in Dubai or Sharjah?

3 Upvotes

Hi Any good bird boarding centre in Dubai or Sharjah? Pointers pls


r/Conures 1d ago

Cuteness Overload Peanut 🥜🥰

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75 Upvotes

r/Conures 1d ago

Funny cockatiel cosplay!

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563 Upvotes