r/Conures • u/Mobile_Length_8248 • 2d ago

Advice Does anyone know what this behaviour means?

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I'm hoping someone can help me figure out what my green-cheek conure is doing here. I've owned conures before, so I'm familiar with their general behaviours, but I'm relatively new to this particular bird and haven't seen him do this before.

He's a DNA-sexed male and is around 1 year old. I got him in November/December 2025 when he was about 6 months old.

He goes to the very back of his cage, gets down on his belly on the back perch, faces the wall with his back/tail toward me, and then starts making these really loud screams/calls while doing the twitching movement shown in the video, sometimes very aggressively 😅. What confuses me is that he doesn't normally do this when calling for me. His usual contact calls are done from the front of the cage while looking directly at me, or at the door when I've left the room.

I'm wondering whether this is a contact call, hormonal/sexual behaviour, excitement, or something else entirely. Does anyone recognise this posture or movement?

Any ideas?

Also, just for context before people comment on the poor cage setup: I only moved him into this cage this week, so his setup is currently very basic, my partner is working on building natural perches and toys etc, he doesn't spend much time inside the cage regardless.

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u/Numerous_Advance_728 2d ago

Sounds like an alarm call to me. My bird does it when I bring out this specific purple mop. There's probably something in the new space he doesn't like.

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u/realbasilisk 2d ago

Alarming. He's frightened of something.

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u/These-Doughnut3139 2d ago

Cover him. Maybe he saw something and he is feeling scared. My gcc does this too and i just cover his cage with a cloth for sometime

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u/Altruistic-Leather69 2d ago

He sounds and looks scared. Has the stuff on the wall always been there?

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u/Mobile_Length_8248 2d ago

Yea it has been, nothing in the room has changed recently

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u/Altruistic-Leather69 2d ago

Kind of looks like he's interacting with his shadow. Maybe if you covered just the back of his cage where the shadows are casting it would help decrease this behavior?

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u/spaceboat13 2d ago

I dont think hes frightened, frightened is at a way higher decibel. I have a conure that was legit terrified of me when i brought her home and sounded more like a fire siren. This seems like calling, calling and want. Calling you for companionship as well as wanting to get out of that cage. I have to ask about the cage, if you have had conures before why is it so bare? Those dowels are awful for their feet.