ok.. it's been nearly a year and it's getting worse

[Michael]

Nice photo. Did you take that?

[Annne]

Cheers he's so hard to photograph haha. Yeah Michael I took it i have another really nice one I'll post when i get on the computer just on my phone ATM

[Annne]

actually the picture has my name on it and i don't want it on a public forum. However i have a facebook page and if anyone on here wants to see private message me i'll tell you what to look up

[GlassOnion]

How's his screaming?

[Annne]

his screaming is better. He has developed a problem towards strangers because of an incident with someone who didn't listen to me. So now he screams and screams at everyone other than my partner or myself . He was very accepting of strangers but a visitor who was home when we weren't moved his cage because he was screaming for me when i specifically said not to go in the room he was in without me. Also have booked an appointment with the vet because he is still screaming at himself and biting himself.

[Flower]

ok thanks.

Firstly i'd like to say... i have asked for help a year ago and i HAVE been doing what everyone had suggested... I researched way before i got him and i knew exactly what i was getting myself into.. i spent time with sun conures before choosing to get one.. i knew how loud he would be. For a year i have been ignoring him while he screams.. i have done techniques i was told here... by the breeder.. and by a vet nurse who looked after him while i was on holiday. For a YEAR! and he is still the same.

With the safflower seeds i should clarify.. he isn't screaming when i give them to him. In the morning he screams until i uncover him. I make his food which is fruit and veg, with soaked pigeon mix that has the safflower seeds in it and he has his pellet mix. When i give him this he goes for the safflower seeds first and i'm able to push him to the window while he's eating and cover the back and sneak away. In the morning is the only time i can do this.. every other time i try to push him to the window he screams that he can't see me.

How am i teaching him to scream when i stand, talk, and not in his sight. When he screams i don't look at him. I don't talk to him.. i completely ignore him.. when he is quiet i talk to him give him attention and let him out. I have been doing this the moment i got him. The only time he gets safflower seeds is with his breakfast and when i try to train him. He doesn't scream when my partner does the things i do. Also some times he's worse than usual and i thought it was due to molting. He always has pin feathers and it seems as soon as he grows his wing/tail feathers to full length they molt again. I thought molting was at certain times of the year not all the time?

I've also tried clicker training.. as i have clicker trained my dog. My conure gets over it very quickly.. even when i have his favorite seeds.. if he doesn't get them straight away he flies at me or just flies away.

Also is it normal for him to not stop moving when he's out of his cage? I've seen videos of conures just sitting on a perch stretching, preening, just hanging around out of their cage. Mine won't stop moving.. his feet r constantly running and jumping.. his beak constantly chewing like he needs a dummy in his mouth.. I've had him out for a lonnnng time trying to see if he'll calm down but he doesn't and i have to put him back in his cage. It would be nice to have his cage open so he can come in and out.

Hi,

I'm new here and just jumping in. I had a conure once....it was the loudest bird I ever had the mispleasure to go near. He loved to scream. Not because he was being bad or mad, he was a conure and that is what conures do.

When they feel endangered they grow quiet, in the wild when everyone (other birds) are yelling and making noise it means all is safe so yell as loud as you can. So the TV, the phone, the refrigerator and all the other household noises means for him/her to join in. He is loud for you and not your partner because YOU are his main bird friend.

Saddly, the only cure for you are ear plugs or re-homing the bird. I don't know where you live, if you own your home or not...but you might try an outside avery kind of set-up. That way you can enjoy his beauty and give him space to fly and scream all he wants. You could make a box to go from your avery to the cage...where you put his food.

I wish you all the best, my conure didn't scream as long as he was covered. My Grandmother loved him dearly, so i gave him to her and after she had him a year she gave him to somebody else because he wouldn't stop screaming mama to the top of his birdy lungs.