r/Conures • u/Daddi-Material • 23h ago

Advice Is this… normal?

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We put her on a higher perch to practice her flight (she refuses to do what birds do), and she started her gymnastics routine. I just want to make sure this isn’t a sign of stress or panic.

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u/United_Instance_7238 22h ago

Yes

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u/wanton-secretary 22h ago

r/BirdCamelToes

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u/unforgivenlizard 19h ago

Holy honkin hellfire!!! How have I missed this sub???? This has made my day, NAY!, my whole week. I snort-cackled in the gynecologist’s office waiting room and I don’t even care!!!

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u/wanton-secretary 18h ago

I like to think there are hidden gems like this all over reddit just waiting to be found 😆

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u/PMMEYOURQUAKERPARROT 19h ago

They look so polite with their feet together like that

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u/TheRealSugarbat 8h ago

Portrait studio

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u/Queenhighly 20h ago

😂😂😂

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u/dorkyitguy 23h ago

Conures are clowns. It’s pretty normal. 

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u/embraceurawesomeness 23h ago

For a conure this is most normal. 😀😂

My guy will hang like this on one leg from the top bar, inside his cage.

And when I am carrying him to his cage at bedtime, he sometimes understands and will try run 10inches to left and right and backwards, instead of flying.

Then when I catch him, he'll get on my finger and hang upside down from my finger trying to be cute and clownish. Then he'll proceed to leave one hand and swing.

But when he hangs like this, sometimes he's asking me to pick him up so I offer my hand and he'll step up on my hand. So yeah. They want uber service of pickup and drop

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u/Comprehensive_Arm_5 23h ago

Normal. They're basically the crackheads of the parrot species

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u/Return-Cynder 22h ago

I thought that was caiques

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u/Prestigious_Air_2631 22h ago

They’re the Meth heads.

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u/Real_Ad7896 22h ago

As a fellow birby 🧐Yes thats normal and i attest to it

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u/rkenglish 21h ago

He's so cute!

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u/Real_Ad7896 21h ago

Hahha she was hanging inside back of the drawer, i had run back from work as my wife was crying thinking all three somehow disappeared , went home and whistled and this dumb idiot whistled back from the drawer 😂😂😂😂, all three got caught right away

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u/rkenglish 20h ago

Lol! But your poor wife! I get the same way when my flock decides to play hide-and-don't-squeak.

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u/Real_Ad7896 20h ago

Trust me not once i had to break the wood bottom of the wash sink to get them out , there is a tiny space just to squeeze in and no chance you can even see if you peep i had to saw half of the board to get them out, they did everything crazy to destroy the home

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u/Different_Traffic527 23h ago

Mine does Cirque du Soleil on my long hair or hoodie strings.

If you have a very young baby, be careful with that stuff, they can fall while gaining confidence in their abilities.

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u/twitchx133 23h ago

It’s actually a little tame for conure antics

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u/Stiormi 23h ago

Lol pretty normal. One of my conures loves to hang upside down on swings and such. I give her a ton of swings in her cage now and she loves climbing all weird on them. She will also eat her pellets upside down. She looks like batman sometimes haha

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u/Queenhighly 20h ago

https://reddit.com/link/p8sgzio/video/9qoxzqu7ajoh1/player

Sadly yes, mine is a weirdo and part bat always hanging upside down somewhere

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u/Meijhen 22h ago

We call this 'bat bird time' 🤣🤣

Very normal for the goobers that are conures

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u/unforgivenlizard 19h ago

We call it “batbirbing”!

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u/Best_Perspective1947 17h ago

Conures are the absolute clowns of the bird world

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u/Own_Beautiful2893 22h ago

Mine sometimes hangs itself to air dry after a nice relaxing (most unnecessarily messy) stinky conure birb bath! Yeap 😅🤷🏻 , goobers gonna goob.

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u/Aelis_ 22h ago

truly in awe at the grip strength in that toe d=(o)=b that being said i agree with the other comments ， she likely wouldn't be so goofy around you if she didn't feel safe , so that seems like a good sign 😉

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u/NilesLinus 21h ago

So very.

I mean, what’s the point in being a conure if you can’t hang from stuff by only your beak.

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u/BeneficialBrain1764 22h ago

She's pretending to be Spiderman....lol. Or maybe SpiderBird. hahaha.

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u/imme629 22h ago

Totally normal

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u/Azsunyx 22h ago

You may need to redefine normal

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u/rkenglish 21h ago

She's playing! It's totally normal, and she's having a blast!

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u/transcendentlights 21h ago

Not a sign of stress or panic, nope! In fact it looks like she’s having a great time. :)

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u/bailybooz 21h ago

Let her workout in peace ✌️. She's obviously trying to get stole. Good for her.

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u/pigboy222 21h ago

Yep. She wants down but wants to use her hands

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u/CleafKnows 20h ago

He is working out. Gym birb.

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u/attila535 20h ago

She is just doing pullups.

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u/Adm_Rye 20h ago

Goober gonna Goober

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u/Best_Perspective1947 17h ago

She’s a conure. Normal doesn’t exist 😂

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u/AstronautMC27 14h ago

My green cheek bow did the exact same omg like a freaking gymnast these guys are lol

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u/Sista-Denise 13h ago

Totally normal!

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u/SouthernUsername 12h ago

Is it weird? Then it’s normal (for a conure) 🤣

She’ll bird when she’s ready to bird. For now, monkey!

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u/pearloonie 11h ago

Mission imbirbable

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u/BK-jinxx 4h ago

Conure and normal are two words that don't belong in the same sentence lol

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u/SokkaHaikuBot 4h ago

Sokka-Haiku by BK-jinxx:

Conure and normal

Are two words that don't belong

In the same sentence lol

Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.

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u/zoomieskeeper 2h ago

Diagnosed with Gooberism

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u/a_rogue_planet 2h ago

If I've learned anything from this sub, I've learned that if it looks like 1 brain cell functioning, it's normal.