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So I'm about one and a half week removed from picking up my bronze-winged pionus. I Googled a lot, joined pionus groups to ask questions, even visited a household with pionuses to ask for first-hand experiences and experience them for myself. I read a lot about them. They seemed like the perfect bird for my situation. And in a span of a few days, I've read a bunch of horrific stories about how aggressive pionuses are, especially to smaller birds. So now I'm super nervous about getting one. And I already got the cage, toys and made a deposit for the bird.
To be clear, I know that horror stories in the context of parrots are just that. They tend to be posted because they're exceptional, and circumstances are usually unclear. I have a pacific parrotlet, a species with all too much of an undeserved bad reputation. And she's the sweetest and most affectionate creature I know.
So what's everyone's experiences with pionuses and their interactions with other birds?
I only have a 1 year-old parrotlet, and she's tiny, of course. And very sweet and at the very least sociable with people. Mind you, after quarantine is over, I will spend a lot of time getting my parrotlet used to the 14 week old pionus. And due to the (beak) size difference, they won't be unsupervised.
When I decided that I wanted a pionus, I didn't intend to get her a cage mate or a friend. Just to get myself a second bird, that wasn't too loud, at least speaks a similar body language to parrotlets, isn't too aggressive and can tolerate my pionus and coexist.
To be clear, I know that horror stories in the context of parrots are just that. They tend to be posted because they're exceptional, and circumstances are usually unclear. I have a pacific parrotlet, a species with all too much of an undeserved bad reputation. And she's the sweetest and most affectionate creature I know.
So what's everyone's experiences with pionuses and their interactions with other birds?
I only have a 1 year-old parrotlet, and she's tiny, of course. And very sweet and at the very least sociable with people. Mind you, after quarantine is over, I will spend a lot of time getting my parrotlet used to the 14 week old pionus. And due to the (beak) size difference, they won't be unsupervised.
When I decided that I wanted a pionus, I didn't intend to get her a cage mate or a friend. Just to get myself a second bird, that wasn't too loud, at least speaks a similar body language to parrotlets, isn't too aggressive and can tolerate my pionus and coexist.