Breeding Jenday Conures
Breeding Jenday Conures is a small Neotropical parrot describe as having green wings and tail. A reddish-orange body yellow head and neck and orange cheeks. They are native to wood habitats in northeastern Brazil. It is a member of the Aratinga solstitialis complex of parakeets very closely relate to and possibly subspecies of the sun parakeet. The are more commonly known as the jandaya parakeet in their nativeregion.
The bird
Breeding Jenday Conures the bird has a wide range but is locally rare in the wild. The common in aviculture, where the are know as “jenday conures. On average it measures 12 in. in length and weighs 125–140 gm. In the wild, their diet consists of various fruits including mango, cashew apples, as well as palm nuts. They also consume plants cultivated by humans such as rice and maize, which makes local farmers consider them a pest. Things that are toxic to jandaya parakeets include chocolate, caffeine, and a chemical often found in avocados.
The jandaya parakeet
The jandaya parakeet has a very loud shrill call. It has an extremely large range in northeastern Brazil in the states of Piaui. Maranhao Tocantins, and Cear and portions of Pará. It is in lowland inhabiting woodland and palm groves. Jandaya parakeets nest in tree hollows, typically choosing a location at least 50 feet from the ground.In captivity, the hen lays three to six eggs, which she then incubates for roughly 26 days. The young are fed by both parents, and fledge after two months.
Four Decades Breeding Jenday Conures
Parrots can be separate into two categories. There are species that are highly adaptable. Initially the birds may decline as their habitat is modify but they quickly adapt and then they seize the modify habitat to expand their range and increase their numbers. There is countless species that fall into this category. Many have establish feral populations. A clear example is the Quaker Parakeetwhich is surviving in New York, Barcelona, Madrid and many other metropolises and in conditions far remove from those the normally experience in the wild.
Adaptable species
Adaptable species are normally very suite for captivity. They breed often very prolifically, and can survive in conditions that are far from optimum. The only cases that I know of extremely successful species not adapting involves the Canary-wing and White-wing Parakeets.I have seen as many as 10,000 gather in a park in the center of town in Leticia, Colombia and also in San Juan, Puerto Rico. There are feral, thriving populations in Miami, Florida, and Belém do Pará, Brazil, to mention just two localities where I have personally seen them. Yet in captivity they are hesitant to nest. After many years, I manage to have breeding groups of both but eventually gave up because the necessary effort to keep them breeding was not justify. Besides, no one want the young and at the time I had my birds in our house in Miami Beach, Florida.
Jenday Conures
Jenday Conures were import into the US during the 1970s and I believe the very early 1980s. The species is native to Brazil but was export through Paraguay. It was easily trappe and is hardy enough to survive the rigors of being sent mainly via bus to Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, where the birds were crossed into Paraguay and then export Brazil has had an export ban since 1967 and thus the bird trade relied primarily on buses to transport the birds, moving them at night and stopping when the heat of the day would prove troublesome.
Jenday Conures were import into the US during the 1970s and I believe the very early 1980s. The species is native to Brazil but was export through Paraguay. It was easily trappe and hardy enough to survive the rigors of being sent mainly via bus to Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, where the birds were crossed into Paraguay and then export Brazil has had an export ban since 1967 and thus the bird trade relied primarily on buses to transport the birds, moving them at night and stopping when the heat of the day would prove troublesome.
Jenday
When first subjected to trapping, Jenday Conures began to decline. They disappeared from many areas of their range. Concomitant to the trapping, the habitat was being modify for agricultural purposes. I remember being unsuccessful in finding them in areas where trappers suggest I could see them in the wild and where they had collected birds. Then something started to happen. The more open habitat, which is prefer by this conure gave it an opportunity to expand its range. Today Jendays is in areas that were never part of their traditional range, including the areas surrounding the city of Belém do
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