RSHi Kathy!
          Thanks for all your help and suggestions.  Well, our mail got
  delayed for several days and then when I downloaded it said it came
  through, but couldn't unzip and to do it all over again - finally got it on
  the 6th try using my husband's computer! Wouldn't you know I had several
  messages in that packet too!  It had been held up for days due to BBS
  troubles.  Anyway, I took a bird friend and we went to the breeders' last
  Thursday.  I don't know what was going on, but the older birds were
  definitely NOT the same age - 1-2 mo. difference.  One he'd already clipped
  the wings on and the younger one he hadn't.  It (the younger one) was
  already trying to talk from hearing the cockatoo and parrots in the same
  building with them, so I wanted that one.  I think he wanted to keep that
  one, for whatever reason, because he tried to talk me out of it by saying
  the other one was smarter and this one acted stupid, etc.; it would bite,
  etc.; and when that failed he wanted to clip the wings.  I thanked him, but
  said I didn't like the wings clipped and if I had problems, I'd do it later
  myself.  I've done it on other birds I've had.  He got real insistent and
  was really upset I wouldn't let him.  The friend with me said he'd probably
  have switched them out.  Any way, I've got it home and named it Tiki -
  after the talking cockatoo it was trying to imitate.  It comes right to the
  edge of the cage and just begs for attention and only hollers when it wants
  me to come over.  If I'm out of the room it doesn't holler, but if I walk
  through or it hears my voice, it will.  I can put my hand up to the wire
  and it'll come over and very gently run it's beak up and down my fingers
  and hand - hasn't offered to bite yet, thank goodness.  It gets really
  scared when I put my hand in the cage, but did keep after it tonight until
  it got on my finger without realizing it and then it mouthed my fingers,
  but no bite!  Took my hand out and did the same from outside the cage, so
  think it will be just fine.  I took the lovebird to a local pet store
  though and traded him in on a peach-capped (?) conure I'd been seeing in
  there and it wanted attention so bad.  Had been a family pet and they
  traded it for a quaker.  He talks a little bit, and is a real character!
  He will bite hard thou gh if he doesn't want to get off your shoulder.
  Otherwise, he's just fine.  So I went from no conures to TWO in 2 days.  A
  friend brought over a whole stack of books to read, plus the couple I'd
  gotten, so am on my way.  Thanks again for all your help and I'll still be
  reading and trying to learn from the conference!  TTYL....Ruth
     Your going to love having conure's provided you can deal with
noise. They do scream a bit. I have a Sun conure that I've had since
november. He's quite a charachter. Very inteligent, inquisitive,
playful. Daring and adventurous come to mind as well.
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