16/11/2025
Why using the correct name of the bird species is important?
When receiving messages asking for a Cinnamon Conure? I personally know the person is referring to the GreenCheeked Conure but the cinnamon mutation. Sadly, not everyone will have that understanding.
Lately, Iâve gotten several messages in regards mutations.
While am Not a geneticist nor a mutation specialist, I do my best on learning and naming my birds species according their own.
Recently I got a friend that came to visit and it was searching for a conure. No matter how many times this friend has seen green cheek conures, he falls for the social prerogative where people change the bird species names towards their pockets instead of the educational side.
He saw: Mooncheek, Suncheek, Cinnamint, Opamint, Single factor Violets, Turquoise Yellowside, amongst other GreenCheeked conure mutation and still asked me the question which one was the Greencheek conure?
I went into details, but it gets harder when it comes to Budgies mutations, Indian Ringnecks mutations and not even talk about the differences between the crossover mutations amongst Quakers.
Also, still very frustrating to explain a naive person the differences between a Sun Conure, Jenday Conure and a Gold-Capped Conure. Even when they all scream the same đ
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When we donât explain the differences between mutations and species we let the whole venue open for speculations and false information.
This turns into a Snowball effect and if Iâve got someone from Oregon asking me about it, it lets me know that everyone in between the entire continent has skipped to reply on this matters.
I bet that good breeders have gotten this circumstances before and am not judging the ones that arenât willing to educate, to each their own. Not my birds not my circus, because I know is very annoying and frustrating to explain the same thing over and over. But we wouldnât have been here if this would have been set clear from the beginning that person got a bird.
A recent example of education:
Yesterday a good friend and client drove down from Georgia to get their bird from me. Weâve been communicating since the beginning she reserved the bird and is so funny to get a reply saying âyou are better than Googleâ. Which in all honesty and integrity, is true. The google information thatâs out there is many, many times improperly uncertain. Plus not realistic. This is the reason we need more ethical breeders out there. Because the smugglers, gold diggers and flippers are taking the lead on the market, since they are simply pleasing the economical aspects and not the real facts of owning a bird nor providing valuable information in regards each bird species they put out there.