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| Topic Started: Oct 24 2006, 01:51 PM (1,692 Views) | |
| BUUZBEE | Oct 24 2006, 01:51 PM Post #1 |
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Nandayus nenday (Nanday Conure; Black-masked Conure; Black-hooded Conure) Nanday Conure The Nanday conure, Nandayus nenday is the most commonly kept pet conure species outside of the two main genera. Some experts believe that Nandays should actually be grouped with the Aratinga genus, since they are cross-fertile with such species as Jendays and Suns. Nanday conures have a distinctive black head, and wings and tails tipped with dark blue feathers. They have a light-blue scarf and bright orange feathers on their legs and around their vents. The maturity of a Nanday can be told by the edges of its black hood: if the hood has a ragged edge of brown, then the bird is over a year old. Although Nandays are often said to be extremely noisy, it might be more accurate to say that they are a heavily flock-oriented species, used to making their demands known, calling out warnings for the group, and making inquiries about other members of the group who are out of sight. They are also extremely intelligent birds, capable of learning tricks, mimicking sounds, and learning a small vocabulary. At least one report suggests that they are highly adaptable to human encroachment on their territories, but the exact status of the species in the wild is unknown.  Scientific Name: Aratinga nenday or Nandayus nenday Distribution: The Nanday Conure or Black-hooded Parakeet is native to southeastern Bolivia, southern Mato Grosso, northern Argentina, Chaco Formosa, and Paraguay. It is also been introduced in North America with colonies reported in the southern and eastern parts of the United States. Description: The head is black, along with the cheeks and throat, which looks like a cap. The rest of the body is green, the throat and breast are blue, and the feet are red. Size - Weight: Mature birds are about 11-12 inches long and weigh 5.2 ounces. Care and feeding: The main diet of the Nanday Conure or Black-hooded Parakeet should primarily be nuts, seeds, fruits, and vegetables. A commercially prepared pelleted diet can also be beneficial. See About Conures: Housing and About Conures: Care and Feeding for more information. Social Behaviors: Wild conures are friendly and peaceful. They live together in large flocks, often with monk parakeets. Breeding/Reproduction: Nanday Conures are sexually mature at three years of age. The hen will lay two to six eggs which incubate for 24-26 days. The cock usually sits on or near the nesting box. The parents should be fed food that is enriched with calcium and mineral supplements. Potential Problems: As with many Aratinga species, the Nanday Conure or Black-hooded Parakeet can be noisy, they have a high pitched screech that can be annoying. See About Conures: Potential Problems for more information. Availability: The Nanday Conure or Black-hooded Parakeet is readily available. Activities: Loves to climb and play. Provide lots of toys. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Description The coloring on a Nanday is quite beautiful. Their bodies are a vivid green, the lower breast, abdomen, under wing-coverts, under tail-coverts and lower back are a yellowish bluish green. The head is black, the throat and upper breast are tinged with deep blue. The lower thighs are a bright red. They have blue flight-feathers and the under side of the tail dark, almost black, while the upper side of tail is more of a olive-green with blue tips. The ring around their eyes is a mixture of white and grey and they have brown irises. Their beak is black and their feet have a brownish-flesh color. Normally Nandays mature by three years of age and normal life expectancy is 35-45 years. They measure about 12 inches in length with a wingspan of about 23-24 inches. Their normal body weight is between 115 to 140 grams Natural Range Southern Mato Grosso, Brazil; southeast Bolivia; Paraguay; northern Argentina in provinces of Formosa, Chaco and Santa Fe. Nandays like to stay in dry to humid savannah with trees and palms and are often found near settlements. They are still very common in most areas. Nandays are usually found in groups of six to 40 birds, but have been observed in flocks of up to 300 birds and are often found roosting in the same trees as Monk Parakeets. Their natural diets are seeds, berries, fruits, little nuts, insects and their larvae. They do occasionally forage in grain/maize fields and can be destructive to agriculture. Status Due to very heavy importation in the 1980's and 1990's, Nandays were very low priced, therefore very few breeders started to raise them because it was much cheaper to just get them imported. Nandays are still a very reasonable priced bird, but are fairly well established in aviculture nowadays. Personality Nandays have a reputation of being very loud birds. This stems from the time of importation, when wild birds were brought into the country. A flock of Nandays will be very loud! It is true that they seem to have shriller tone than most other conures, and it can get a little nerve piercing when they let out a jungle call. However they are not constant screamers and make very good pets. They are intelligent, very affectionate and are good talkers with most of them mastering quite a few words and phrases. They also easily acclimate themselves to changes. They are very playful and love showers from a spray bottle or take baths in a water dish. Nandays do love their toys and can entertain themselves for a long time. They need lots of wood toys as they tend to be chewers. They seem to get along with other pet birds very easily and love the company. Overall a wonderful pet if you don’t mind an occasional screech that is a little on the loud side! Breeding Their breeding habits are like most other conures thof the same size. Nandays average two clutches a year, but on occasions do have a third clutch. The clutch size seem to average at three eggs, being laid every other day. Incubation is around 25 days. The male helps feed young ones once they have hatched. The young hatchlings wean between eight and 10 weeks. They are easy to handfeed and are being removed from the nest for handfeeding by breeders between two and three weeks of age. www.conure.org  kiwi, photo courtesy of Sheal! Edited by BUUZBEE, Aug 31 2009, 01:21 PM.
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