Blue Crown Conure problems and the Answers to them

That Means No Biting, Screaming, Or Terrorizing. The Blue Crown Conure may be one of the most recognizable birds around thanks in large part to the movie Pauli. While I won’t comment on the movie, I can tell you that the blue crown conure is popular for many reasons other than that. The blue crown conure is beautiful, social, intelligent, and generally a very sweet bird. That doesn’t mean that they aren’t prone to behavior problems, even the blue crown will bite, scream and pull out their feathers. Let’s take a look at the three most common reasons for this unhappy behavior.

He is sick and just doesn’t feel good. Take your bird to the avian veterinarian. This is especially important if you just acquired him from a breeder, pet store, or have adopted him from another family. If he gets a good bill of health, then
make sure you’re doing everything you can to keep him that way.

Feed him an organic pellet based diet with plenty of fruits and veggies. Make sure he gets plenty of shut eye. Allow him to bathe regularly or simply take him in the shower with you – I recommend purchasing a shower perch for this.

Lastly, weigh him daily. Weight loss will often be the first sign of illness and if you’re accurately tracking your bird’s weight daily with a bird scale, you can often preempt and literally save your bird’s life. A quick tip on weighing your
bird is to weigh him at the same time every day.

He’s bored. Honestly, how long could you stare at that wall without wanting to scream or bite someone? The best and easiest way to cure your bird’s boredom is to give him plenty to do. There are amazing bird toys available that engage your bird in his natural behaviors like chewing, climbing, and foraging. You can also look for toys that offer different textures, noises, colors, and even problem solving skills. Make sure your blue crown has plenty of room to explore his cage and his toys and he’ll be much happier. In fact, he’ll be so happy his bad behaviors might stop immediately.

The last and most common cause of bad blue crown behavior is that your bird simply doesn’t trust you. The best and easiest way to gain your bird’s trust, actually it’s the only way, is to trick train your bird. But, you’re saying, my bird doesn’t even let me get him out of the cage how am I going to train him to do tricks? Not to worry, it’s possible and even quite simple to trick train your bird beginning with simple commands that ask him to perform behaviors that he already enjoys like spreading his wings or bobbing his head.

The key in the beginning is to get him to perform a behavior in exchange for a treat. Eventually, you can train him to do just about anything, including riding a scooter or a bike if you want to take it to that level. Of course if you simply want a bird that is a happy and friendly member of your family trick training will accomplish your goals.

This article was written by Chet Womach who has helped bird owners across the globe with their parrot behavior issues. Click here for more info on Blue Crown Conures.