I've posted a lot recently but new questions keep popping up .My Sun Conure knows how to step up, and the only time he will do it without a treat is when he is on the floor. Normally I lure him with a treat and let him eat it on my finger and set him on the bed. The majority of the time I ask him to step up,i don't put him in the cage. So i dont think he thinks I'm going to put him in. Sometimes he refuses to step up. When he is on a perch he will hang his body off the back so just his head and feet are on the perch. When I walk away he pops back up but when I show him my finger he goes behind it again. He isn't scared of my finger, he just knows I can't get him to step up that way. Also when I try to put him back in the cage he runs up to the top of the cage. I can never get him off of there either. Next problem, he won't stay on my finger. I try to block him and distract him but he always makes his way to my shoulder. He likes it up there and it is his favorite place. He hates it when I try to get him off. Sometimes I can get him to step onto a perch off my shoulder, but not often. Besides that, and when he will step up, he is an amazing bird. We cuddle and watch tv together and he loves head scratches .
He is around 6 months old now.
He didn't have a rough past, besides the fact that no other customers were interested in him. i would visit him and give him head scratches and hold him. So when I took him home he was already comfortable with me.
Sorry about the long post lol. Thank you