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[SuperManGuy]

Originally Posted by missik999

True mini macaws include Hahn's macaw and Severe macaw. Conures are somewhere between "large parakeets" and "small parrots." The American Ornithologists Union refers to conures as parakeets but I have never seen them considered to be mini macaws.

Macaws and Conures are closely related enough that they can produce babies.

[missik999]

Originally Posted by SuperManGuy

Macaws and Conures are closely related enough that they can produce babies.

I can't imagine a greenwing breeding with a conure.

Have you ever seen any of these offspring?

[SuperManGuy]

Originally Posted by missik999

I can't imagine a greenwing breeding with a conure.

Have you ever seen any of these offspring?

Here is a hybrid between a Sun Conure and a Hahn's Macaw.

As you can see, he has the red color on its head like a Sun Conure, but has the naked area between the eye and the beak like the Hahn's Macaw.

[Ram8349]

Actually birds poop a lot too, and they can't hold it like dogs and cats do.

I've had them during my childhood. Cleaning birds poop is also a "job" lol.

[missik999]

I had an umbrella cockatoo that was potty trained. She would only go over the newspaper in her cage or under her stand. We could carry her all over the house on our shoulders and she would never make a mess.

[415_s2k]

Here's one of my friends with my red-lored Amazon parrot, Theo:



He's a character. About seven now, and I've had him for six years. He's still a total sweetheart overall and totally awesome to me and a select few, but he's definitely hit the post-puberty aggressive streak :/ I've taken him to meet other parrots before; he woos the females and is pretty standoffish towards other males, but enjoys singing and whatnot. I used to foster birds, and he generally gets along well with parakeets and cockatiels, though when my old roommate got a green cheek conure, he became impossibly jealous and actually flew away for three days. Don't take him outside much after that episode...