Blue-Crowned Conure

Blue-Crowned Conure
Sometimes eclipsed by their noisy, gaudy, extraverted cousins, the Blue-Crowned Conure is perhaps the best suited to life as a companion bird of all the conures. With a length of just under 12 inches, a slender build and a large head and beak, they're small enough to fit in just about anywhere, although their active nature does call for a good sized cage.

Blue-Crowned Conure

Basically green in color, the Blue-Crowned is quite attractive, with three or four different greens in its striking plumage. The underparts of the tail feathers are red-orange and its head is crowned in the lovely blue from whence it gets its name. Although not so flashy as some of the other conures, the Blue-Crowned is one good looking bird indeed. Even it's beak is multi-colored. In mature birds, the upper mandible is horn colored and the lower mandible is black.

Sometimes a bit shy initially, the Blue-Crowned conure quickly warms up and generally becomes a good-natured, cheerful, playful friend, one possessing high intelligence and often demonstrating the ability to talk. Although Blue- Crowned conures frequently speak, speech should not be the main consideration in acquiring one. A Blue-Crowned talks well for a conure, but in that respect they're not to be compared with African Grays or some of the other outstanding talkers of the parrot world.

One of their more attractive features is that they tend to be much less noisy than other conure species. That's not to say that they can be described as "quiet," but those familiar with the Sun Conure, for example, would be quick to notice and appreciate the difference. Like the other members of the conure family, Blue-Crowned conures love attention and want to be close to their owners, who will be both charmed and delighted by their multifaceted personality. Just about all conures are curious, inquisitive, active, playful and gorgeous.

These birds are natural, playful clowns that endlessly entertain their owners with amusing antics. Conures are frequently seen rolling on their backs, kicking their feet in the air, wrestling and tumbling, standing on their heads or hanging upside down by a toenail and rotating in space while calling to their friends.

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