Meet Mango my bird.
I was asked by a dear friend if I would like to have her Sun Conuer. She moved away and was unable to take him with her. I thought about it for three days, the responsibility, the extra NOICE in the house, and even then I said, yes.
Though her discription of his temperment was clear I had no idea...a sun conure can be so persistant and LOUD!
However he has loved on me from day one...after a few bites: I persisted as well.
'He hates hands" but I have since got him to trust me and to step up :) "He hates men" but Mike (my son has got him to get on his shoulder too, however Mike is still not too sure of Mango yet.
On the third day of having Mango, I had his cage outside cleaning it and letting him enjoy some of the sunshine that these birds love: he lifed his cage door ( I was unaware that he could do this) and flies into the tree :( So after an hours attempt to coaxed him to desend from the tree I finally called the lady that had cared for him for awhile and she quickly came to our rescue. She (afraid of hights climbed up a very tall ladder to the tree where Mango perched and got him to come to her. He still was not that attached to me so for her to come and rescue him was probably the better choice, or risk the chance of him flying into other trees and out of my yard: Lesson learned...lock the cage door while outside. :{)
Mango loves to do da tango, he loves to dance to music, he loves to be loved and LOVES kisses.
When he is not the center of attention and in his cage all he does is SCREEEEECH! OMG...SO I have had to resort to disipline :] I now go to his cage and give it a good wack and tell him to knock it off! and walk away...after a few times of this I tell him bad bird and put on the cover. He screeched a few times this time and then stopped. After a bit of quite I took off the cover and said "ok now your quite you can come out". Well he had his way of saying, "not so easy" He stayed behind his big fluffy toy and played pickaboo for a bit then finally came down and got on my sholder and then...gave me the cold shoulder ( he kept his face turned away for several minutes) then fianlly dicided he was done being mad at me...it was pretty funny :o)
The one thing that is going to be hard is having him out of the cage without flying to me where ever I am. He will not let me walk away without flying to me. Well that is another lesson...LOL
