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My Name Is Lynyrd Skynyrd
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Several years after my second oldest daughter had brought our sun conure Baby to us, we once again became the owners of a bird that needed a good home. Our new member of the family was a jendaya conure named Lynyrd Skynyrd who along with saying his name had a few undesiralbe words he had been taught. The original owners had lost interest in him when they became parents and in order to keep hmi quiet placed him in a room by himself. Being used to free rein of the house and company this became unbearable for the bird and he became noisy and aggressive. The bird soon became t5oo much for the owners and was given to my youngest daughter who had the bird up until she was about to have her third child. Realizing the bird would be a problem, and since the bird could not be touched or handled in any way she asked if we would be interested in taking the bird. Lynyrd Skynyrd became a member of our family and after almost a year of giving the bird a great deal of attention I have been able to retrain him so that at least I can handle him. He still has a problem in the morning when he awakens when he is very nasty and attempts to bite me but he later calms down and I am able to handle him if I chose to. As to his language we are still working on that and although he hasn't heard words such as the ones he will say he continues to say them. Maybe he always will. Both Lynyrd and Baby are kept in cages that can be carried during the day and are with me all the time when I am home. My wife swear that the birds start making noise when they sense my truck turning the corner of our street and she even believes they start sometimes before I even get to the corner. I don't know about that but I sure hear them when I park the truck. From that time until bed time they are with me and if I leave the room they start letting me know that they want to come along. I clean their cages every night and, YES, they both go to bed with me. Baby goes into her large cage and Lynyrd goes in his.
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INFORMATION ABOUT JANDAYA CONURES
Jandaya Conures (Aratinga Jandaya)
Range: Northeastern Brazil
Distinguishing Features: Orangish Yellow Head and Neck, with Green
Wings: Underparts are a fiery orangish red.
Young Birds: Considerable paler, with green plumage often extending to the head and neck.
Length: 30 cm (12 in)
It has been suggested that the Jandaya Conure is simply a subspecies of the Golden-capped, along with the Sun Conure. Certainly, they do show similarities in appearance, and pairs can often breed just as freely. On a few occasions clutches ofsix eggs have been reported, and jandayas were first bred in aviary surroundings during the last century. Today stock tends to be relatively expensive, certainly when compared with other duller Araintgas, which are still being imported.
( excerpt obtained from Al David's Book
Conures - A Complete introduction CO-014 S
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Edited_May 07, 2004
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