If you are considering a Red Throated Conure, or have just recently decided to add one to your family, they will require a fair amount of your time. In return they will give you their love and affection for possibly the next 20 years. Here are 7 answers to frequently asked question about this rare and beautiful parrot.
1. Is there any difference between the Red Throated Conure and the Red Throated Parakeet? No, this is just an alternate name for the same bird. You may also see it referred to as the Orange Throated Conure.
2. How big are they when fully grown? They average between 9 and 12 inches in length, and weigh between 4 and 5 ounces.
3. How much attention do they need? You should plan to spend a minimum of several hours a day interacting one on one with this parrot. The more you socialize with your parrot, the more chance you stand of avoiding biting, screaming, and feather plucking.
It is easier to avoid these behaviors than it is to redirect them once they have become habit. And if your Conure becomes emotionally unhealthy, deterioration of physical health often follows and often opens the door to disease and infection which can ultimately shorten the life of your companion.
4. What kind of cage is best? A stainless steel cage is the best overall choice. It is an expensive cage, but you will only need to purchase one of them because they will last for the lifetime of your bird.
The cage should be large enough to allow your Conure to fully expand its wings in any direction inside the cage. The cage should also contain a variety of toys, perches at different levels, and bar width that is narrow enough to prevent your bird from getting its head caught between them.
5. What’s the best way to find an avian vet? One of the best ways is by word of mouth. There are many bird related bulletin boards, forums, and chat rooms. Become a member, join in the discussions, and post your questions.
People are more than happy to share their personal recommendations about vets that they have found helpful. Your breeder is also an excellent resource for finding a vet.
6. How loud are they? On a scale from 1 to 10 with 10 being really noisy, Conures generally approach an 8. They make loud screeching sounds that can eventually becoming distracting at best. Again this is a generalization, and you should keep in mind that each bird is different. Using a cage cover that does not let in light will help delay the noise until you remove it in the morning.
If you are still on the fence about a Red Throated Conure, spend some time around the bird to get some idea of how loud the bird you’re interested in really is. Then access whether you think all in your family will be able to tolerate this for the next 20 years or so. If the answer is yes, you’ve found a friend for life.
7. What type of air purifier is safe for my Conure? A high efficiency particle arresting (abbreviated as HEPA) air purifier is safe, efficient, and economical. It is designed to run 24 hours a day to stay ahead of and remove particulates that can clog your bird’s air passages.
These particles include feathers, dust, bird dander in addition to those that are found in the average home– dust, mites, mold and mildew spores, bacteria, and viruses.
A HEPA air purifier is capable of removing bird dander as well as other fine particulates and produces only fresh clean air. A bird dander air purifier can literally add years of life to your Red Throated Conure and you.
An excellent HEPA air purifier to remove airborne pollutants from your Red Throated Conure’s air is offered by PurerAir.com– the Bird Dander Purifier See it now at http://purerair.com/bird_dander_air_purifier.html
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Natural Food for Parrots and Conures – 3 lb. $11.99 ZuPreem Natural is a nutritious diet designed to meet all the established nutrient requirements of Conures, Amazons, African Greys, Pionus, Eclectus and other medium sized parrots. ZuPreem Natural is an extruded diet, which means that it is more thoroughly cooked than a traditional pelleted food. The premium ingredients are cooked to increase digestibility thus allowing more nutritients to be utilized by your bird. Each nugget is made from the same formula and is nutritionally balanced, promoting better health. ZuPreem Natural has controlled iron content (less than 80 ppm) and may be good for species predisposed to iron-storage disease. |
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8 in 1 Ecotrition Color Boost Blend for Parrots and Conures, 4 lbs () $22.99 8 in 1 Ecotrition Color Boost Blend for Parrots and ConuresOur 8 in 1 Ecotrition Color Boost Blend provides a scientifically fortified diet to enhance parrots’ and conures’ colorful, bright plumage. This specially formulated blend includes natural ingredients such as marigold petals, peppers and carrots to provide carotenoids needed by birds to enhance pigmentation which brings out true, brilliant color. Ecotrition Color Boost Blend delivers everything your bird needs to flourish with bright, colorful feathers during their long, healthy life. Vitamin and mineral fortified! |
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ZuPreem AvianMaintenance Natural Bird Diet for Parrots & Conures (20 lbs.) $49.99 This ZuPreem Avian Diet is enjoyed by conures, African greys, small Amazons, small cockatoos, mini macaws, pionus, caiques, Jardine’s parrots, eclectus, and other medium-sized parrots.ZuPreem AvianMaintenance Natural is a nutritious diet designed to meet all the established nutrient requirements of various types of pet birds. Formulated by a veterinarian and PhD nutritionist, ZuPreem AvianMaintenance combines the highest quality ingredients with strict standards of quality control to ensure that your bird receives the highest quality nutrition.ZuPreem AvianMaintenance is an extruded diet, which means it is more thoroughly cooked than a traditional pelleted diet. The premium ingredients in ZuPreem AvianMaintenance are cooked to increase digestibility thus allowing more nutrients to be utilized by your pet bird. Each nugget of ZuPreem AvianMaintenance is made from the same formula, ensuring your bird is receiving the same quality nutrition in every bite of ZuPreem Maintenance. |
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Jungle Munchies for Conures and African Greys – 25 lb. $63.99 This is the ultimate gourmet bird food. The perfect blend of fruits, vegetables and nuts is scientifically formulated with vitamins and minerals. Each bag of Pretty Bird Seed contains a carefully chosen selection of the finest quality ingredients available, all of which have passed a rigorous inspection and testing procedure to insure the quality you expect from Pretty Bird products. All of the nuts chosen as ingredients for Pretty Bird Seed Mixtures have exceeded top quality human grade standards and are a delightful addition to the daily food offering. Pretty Bird has always supported the position that a wide variety of foods provides an optimum feeding situation for pet birds, and that having this variety available on a regular basis promotes happiness and well-being. Pretty Bird includes generous portions of our extruded blend. Our blend is flavor enhanced to ensure that your bird will enjoy their daily dose of essential vitamins and minerals. Pretty Bird provides you with the highest quality ingredients, the most advanced manufacturing and cleaning process as well as the best quality control. |
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Avi-cakes for Parakeets, Cockatiels & Conures – 20 lb. $79.99 Your bird will love the delicious mixture of seeds, grains, nutritious pellets and sweet molasses in Avi Cakes Whether your bird deserves a reward for good behavior, or just for a fun snack, Avi Cakes are sure to become your bird’s favorite treat Great tastes for your bird, and an extra boost of nutrition to insure your peace of mind. |
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Jungle Munchies for Conures and African Greys – 3 lb. $9.99 This is the ultimate gourmet bird food. The perfect blend of fruits, vegetables and nuts is scientifically formulated with vitamins and minerals. Each bag of Pretty Bird Seed contains a carefully chosen selection of the finest quality ingredients available, all of which have passed a rigorous inspection and testing procedure to insure the quality you expect from Pretty Bird products. All of the nuts chosen as ingredients for Pretty Bird Seed Mixtures have exceeded top quality human grade standards and are a delightful addition to the daily food offering. Pretty Bird has always supported the position that a wide variety of foods provides an optimum feeding situation for pet birds, and that having this variety available on a regular basis promotes happiness and well-being. Pretty Bird includes generous portions of our extruded blend. Our blend is flavor enhanced to ensure that your bird will enjoy their daily dose of essential vitamins and minerals. Pretty Bird provides you with the highest quality ingredients, the most advanced manufacturing and cleaning process as well as the best quality control. |
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Jungle Munchies for Conures and African Greys – 8 lb. $23.99 This is the ultimate gourmet bird food. The perfect blend of fruits, vegetables and nuts is scientifically formulated with vitamins and minerals. Each bag of Pretty Bird Seed contains a carefully chosen selection of the finest quality ingredients available, all of which have passed a rigorous inspection and testing procedure to insure the quality you expect from Pretty Bird products. All of the nuts chosen as ingredients for Pretty Bird Seed Mixtures have exceeded top quality human grade standards and are a delightful addition to the daily food offering. Pretty Bird has always supported the position that a wide variety of foods provides an optimum feeding situation for pet birds, and that having this variety available on a regular basis promotes happiness and well-being. Pretty Bird includes generous portions of our extruded blend. Our blend is flavor enhanced to ensure that your bird will enjoy their daily dose of essential vitamins and minerals. Pretty Bird provides you with the highest quality ingredients, the most advanced manufacturing and cleaning process as well as the best quality control. |
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Kaytee Exact Rainbow for Parrots & Conures (20 lbs.) $54.99 Kaytee Exact Rainbow is a nutritious bird food developed by the nutritional experts at the Kaytee Avian Research Center to provide all the nutrients proven necessary for macaws, cockatoos, all parrots, eclectus, pionus, and large conures.Exact Rainbow combines the highest quality ingredients with added nutrients in a special pasteurizing process to produce an enticing rainbow of life-like colors and shapes. These unique colors, shapes and textures provide a dynamic, fun feeding experience for your bird.Because each nugget is exact, your pet will not leave important ingredients uneaten, insuring your birds gets exactly the right nutrition to produce better feathering and brighter color, and maintain excellent health.Since there are no shells or hulls, there will be less mess in and around the cage and more time for you to enjoy your bird’s company. |
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Kaytee Exact Conversion & Weaning Formula for Parrots & Conures (1.5 lbs.) $9.99 Kaytee Exact has been the recognized nutritional leader by avian veterinarians and breeders since its introduction more than a decade ago. Developed by the nutritional experts at the Kaytee Avian Research Center, Exact is the most researched and widely used extruded food available.Extruded diets have been proven to provide superior nutrition when compared with seed blends. The difficulty is converting a bird on a seed mix to an extruded or processed food. Exact Conversion & Weaning improves the initial acceptance when introducing an extruded food, and is the easiest way to convert your bird from a seed or other diet to Exact nutrition.This complete diet provides premium daily nutrition for Macaws, Cockatoos, African Greys, all Parrots, Eclectus, Pionus, and large Conures. Exact Conversion & Weaning combines the highest quality ingredients with necessary nutrients to produce an enticing rainbow of colors. Each nugget contains exact nutrition ensuring your bird gets exactly the right nutrition to produce better feathering, brighter colors, and maintain excellent health. No shells or hulls means there will be less mess in and around your cage and more time for you to enjoy your bird’s company.Crunchy, easy to eat texture, high nutritional content, and compatibility with Exact Hand Feeding Formula makes it an excellent weaning food. |
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Trusty Dog Leash – Golden Green – 5/8 in. x 6 ft. $6.99 Trusty Dog Leashes by Pure Pets are functional and attractive accessories, perfect for strolls through the neighborhood or anywhere you take your pet. Durable nylon leashes feature golden green coloration and reliable, heavy-duty snaps. |
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Trusty Dog Leash – Golden Green – 1 in. x 4 ft. $7.89 Trusty Dog Leashes by Pure Pets are functional and attractive accessories, perfect for strolls through the neighborhood or anywhere you take your pet. Durable nylon leashes feature golden green coloration and reliable, heavy-duty snaps. |
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Trusty Dog Leash – Golden Green – 1 in. x 6 ft. $7.89 Trusty Dog Leashes by Pure Pets are functional and attractive accessories, perfect for strolls through the neighborhood or anywhere you take your pet. Durable nylon leashes feature golden green coloration and reliable, heavy-duty snaps. |
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Trusty Dog Leash – Golden Green – 3/4 in. x 6 ft. $7.89 Trusty Dog Leashes by Pure Pets are functional and attractive accessories, perfect for strolls through the neighborhood or anywhere you take your pet. Durable nylon leashes feature golden green coloration and reliable, heavy-duty snaps. |
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Original Avi-cakes for Parakeets, Cockatiels & Conures – 8 oz. $4.89 Avi-Cakes are loaded with seed. Depending on the variety, there’s canary seed, safflower, sunflower and millet. When a bird looks at Avi-Cakes, that’s what they see – seeds through and through. But there’s a lot more to Avi-Cakes than just seed. There’s wholesome foods like cracked corn, rolled oats and whole eggs. All made extra enticing with a covering of rich, thick molasses. Hidden between all those enticing ingredients are the pellets. Pellets that provide 100% of the balanced nutrition a bird needs. Also a food that provides essential beak exercise and an enjoyable eating experience. |
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Kaytee Exact Fruity Rainbow for Parrots and Conures – 2 lb. $8.99 Kaytee Exact Rainbow Fruity Parrot/Conure provides your amazon, African Grey, eclectus, pionus or large conure with complete nutrition and brighter feathers for a healthy and beautiful bird. Also supports heart, brain and eye function and increased metabolism from DHA omega 3 fatty acid. Made from Kaytee Exact supplemented with fruit like bananas, pineapple and mangos. |
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Kaytee Exact Natural Veggie Parrots and Conures – 2 lb. $8.99 Kaytee Exact Natural Veggie Parrot/Conure provides your amazon, African Grey, eclectus, pionus or large conure with complete nutrition and brighter feathers. Also supports heart, brain and eye function and increased metabolism from DHA omega 3 fatty acid. Made from Kaytee Exact supplemented with veggies like carrots, sweet potatoes and peppers. |
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Fruit Blend Diet for Medium to Large Parrots and Conures – 17.5 lb. $39.99 ZuPreem Fruit Blend Premium Bird Food is formulated for various species of captive birds. They’re nutritionally balanced with 21 vitamins and minerals in every bite, and they contain fresh ground fruit for a taste and aroma birds love! These easy to eat, naturally preserved pelleted foods are shaped and colored like 5 different fruits. This size is recommended for Macaws, Cockatoos, Amazons, Senegals and other large parrots. |
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Premium Bird Food for Conures and Small Parrots – 25 lb. $41.99 Pretty Bird prides itself on the quality of its bird food. All species specific mixtures are scientifically formulated to give your bird all the nutrition advantages possible The variety of tastes in every bag is sure to please even the pickiest of pet birds. |
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Nutrition Plus Supreme Food for Cockatiel, Lovebird and Conures – 3 lb. $5.99 Choosing Nutrition Plus Supreme Foods for your bird shows them your commitment to their health and well-being. These foods are vitamin and mineral fortified and formulated with select seeds, nuts, fruits, and grains as well as specialized ingredients specific to your pet’s taste and nutritional needs. Appealing textures, colors, shapes and flavors stimulate their appetite and help to satisfy natural foraging and chewing habits. It all comes together in this exceptional food! |
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Premium Bird Food for Conures and Small Parrots – 3 lb. $5.99 The perfect blend of fruits, vegetables and nuts, scientifically fortified with vitamins and minerals. The carefully chosen selection of fine quality ingredients have passed a rigorous inspection and testing procedure to insure good quality in the food. A combination of this food and other Pretty Bird foods will help give your feathered friends a good variety of food choices and when available on a regular basis will help promote happiness and well-being in your bird. |
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Avian Fashions FlightSuit in Small (Small; Baby Tiels, African Senegals, Conures) $24.99 Soar to new heights of fun with FlightSuits. This reusable bird diaper collects droppings in the patented poop-pouch and keeps droppings away from you and your bird anywhere, anytime. With FlightSuits, your bird can enjoy more out-of-cage time without the mess, inconvenience, and embarrassment of soiling your clothing or furnishings.Won’t impede flight. Non-restrictive, comfortable design allows wings, neck, and feet maximum freedom.Patented pouch keeps droppings away from bird, and you.Quick and easy on and off with Velcro fasteners.Made of lightweight, stretchy Lycra fabric in a fun rainbow pattern.Reusable diapers last for years. Insert a disposable FlightLiner in the poop-pouch to extend use and cut down on changing or laundering of FlightSuits.Great for travel, even for potty-trained birds.Set includes FlightSuit, FlightLiners, LifeRing and Lanyard or AnchorLine to keep your pet safely grounded and allow FlightSuit to double as a comfortable harness. |
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Kaytee Forti-Diet Egg-Cite! for Conures & Lovebirds (3 lbs.) $9.99 KAYTEE Forti-Diet Egg-Cite! Egg-riched Fortified Food is recommended during breeding and molting.High quality protein Readily available energy Well balanced amino acids and fatty acids Great Nutrition |
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Kaytee Exact Rainbow Premium Daily Nutrition for Parrots & Conures (4 lbs.) $19.99 This complete diet provides premium daily nutrition for macaws, cockatoos, amazons, African Greys, all parrots, eclectus, pionus, and large Conures.Exact Rainbow combines the highest quality ingredients with necessary nutrients to produce enticing rainbow of colors and shapes. No matter what color or shape, each extruded nugget contains exact nutrition, insuring your birds get exactly the right nutrition to produce better feathering, brighter colors, and maintain excellent health.No shells or hulls means there will be less mess in and around the cage and more time for you to enjoy your bird’s company.Kaytee Exact has been the recognized nutritional leader by avian veterinarians and breeders since its introduction more than a decade ago. Exact is the most researched and widely used extruded food available.Choose Exact for exact nutrition in every bite. |
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Kaytee Exact Original Premium Daily Nutrition for Parrots & Conures (25 lbs.) $49.99 This complete diet provides premium daily nutrition for macaws, cockatoos, amazons, African Greys, all parrots, eclectus, pionus, and large Conures.Exact Original combines the highest quality ingredients with necessary nutrients to produce enticing crunchy nuggets. Each extruded nugget contains exact nutrition, insuring your birds get exactly the right nutrition to produce better feathering, brighter colors, and maintain excellent health.No shells or hulls means there will be less mess in and around the cage and more time for you to enjoy your bird’s company.Kaytee Exact has been the recognized nutritional leader by avian veterinarians and breeders since its introduction more than a decade ago. Exact is the most researched and widely used extruded food available.Choose Exact for exact nutrition in every bite. |
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Lafeber’s Original Flavor Avi-Cakes for Parakeets, Cockatiels & Conures (8 oz.) $7.99 It’s Love At First BiteOriginal, Nutritional, FlavorfulThis is the recipe birds have grown to love. Lafeber blends the natural flavors of fresh seed with an equal amount of nourishing enriched pellets and the surrounds them both with sweet, scrumptious molasses.Cake with BalanceAvi-Cakes are chock-full of protein, carbohydrates, fat, and every essential vitamin and mineral. They provide 100% of your bird’s nutritional needs in each delicious cake, making them not just good, but good for your feathered friend.Working and ChewingBirds, large and small, are happiest when they’re working. And, natural work is precisely what Avi-Cakes require. Seeds and pellets are bound tightly together in a bed of chewy molasses and eating them takes hard work–happiness for your bird.These chewy treats are scored for easy, precise feeding and packed in a resealable bag. |
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Hi-Energy Special – 20 lb. $42.99 Want to make your bird smile? Specially formulated for Macaws, Golden Conures, and Black Palm Cockatoos, this food provides all the balanced nutrition needed for high-energy birds A variety of tastes pleases even the pickiest of feathered friends. |
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Trusty Dog Harness – Golden Green – 5/8 in. x 14-20 in. $11.99 Trusty Dog Harnesses by Pure Pets offer added control while walking your pet. Durable, adjustable harnesses are made of tough nylon web and feature secure plastic closures. |
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Trusty Dog Harness – Golden Green – 3/8 in. x 8-12 in. $9.99 Trusty Dog Harnesses by Pure Pets offer added control while walking your pet. Durable, adjustable harnesses are made of tough nylon web and feature secure plastic closures. |
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Trusty Dog Collar – Golden Green – 1 in. x 16-26 in. $5.89 Trusty Dog Collars by Pure Pets are durable and attractive accessories for your precious pet. Tough, adjustable nylon web collars feature vibrant colors and patterns, and close with a secure plastic buckle. |
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Trusty Dog Collar – Golden Green – 3/4 in. x 14-20 in. $5.89 Trusty Dog Collars by Pure Pets are durable and attractive accessories for your precious pet. Tough, adjustable nylon web collars feature vibrant colors and patterns, and close with a secure plastic buckle. |