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Conure
By peace | August 6, 2007
The brightly coloured sun conures and the jenday conures spurred aviculturists into breeding conures on a large scale. The sun conure was first imported into the United States in the 1960s, and these birds were routinely bred in captivity by the 1980s.
The Jenday Conure soon followed. After that, aviculturists turned their attention to other conure species, which turned out to be a benefit for both pet owners and wild conures. Pet owners received more suitable companion birds when domestic-bred conures were available, and wild conures were less threatened with trapping and exportation because the demand for them decreased.
Although wild-caught birds were still fairly common pets into the early 1980s, most conures offered for sale as pets are now domestically-bred birds. This means they are healthier and better suited emotionally to be pets than the wild-caught birds of twenty or twenty-five years ago.
What is a Conure?
Conures are New World Parrots. They are native to the Americas. They were first found throughout Latin America, from Mexico through the islands of the Caribbean to southern Chile. The largest conure is the Patagonian conure, which is about seventeen and a half inches long from the top of his head to the tip of his tail.
Picture of A Patagonian Conure : Conures are the groups of parrots. There are many conure species, ranging from 45-100 different species and subspecies of birds in six genera.
The conure’s common name comes from the old scientific name for the genus conures belong: Conorus — from the Greek words cone(cone) and ourus (tail-bearing). That genus is now known as Aratinga (meaning “little macaw”). The Aratinga group, for example, includes many types of parakeets.
Conures’ native environments include a wide variety of climates and terrains, from savannahs to tropical forests and cooler mountain areas. They are peaceful birds who live in large flocks. Conures’ nesting sites in the wild range from niches carved into sandstone cliffs to tree cavities.
Some species, such as the red throat, olive throat, Cuban, and peach front, nest in active termite mounds or termite nests in trees. In the wild, conures eat a variety of food, including grass seeds, fruits, cactus, berries, nuts, flowers, insects and grains. They can also do damage to cultivated crops, which makes them unpopular with farmers in their native habitats.
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