Dusky conure photos!

[asterroc]

Tuesday I put down a deposit on the dusky conure I'd been visiting with. It will be at least two weeks before I can take her home, as they need to do a throat culture first. Today I visited with her before work, and I took a few pictures. She was absolutely terrified of the camera, so I didn't take too many, I didn't use the flash to scare her more, and I didn't zoom in. The photos came out slightly dull in color, and slightly blurred (since I and she were both moving), so I (unlike usual) actually edited them a bit for color, sharpness, and cropped. Below are the two I like best.


This is my new dusky conure from the back. Her back/wings are actually slightly iridescent, though it doesn't show in the photo.


And from the front, kinda. I can tell her from her "brother" because above her nostrils is a little more tan, and her belly is a little lighter a green. That and they "squared off" the very tip of the other one's tail. :-P

Edit:
Forgot to mention, I'm looking for naming help! Some of my ideas include Sushi, Dragonfly, and Kappa. I'm currently leaning towards Sushi or Kappa - the latter was suggested by "Foxtrot" (CTY friend), in reference to cucumber maki (sushi rolls), and also reminds me of κ (Greek letter).

Comments

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Which would be easier for a bird to say? I understand they can do a K easily but can't do a P to well, and I don't know about S/SH sounds.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Hmm, yeah, the P sound might be the trickiest. S/SH sounds might be pretty easy, since hissing/whistling sounds certainly seem to come naturally (at least for my conures). Er. Unless they're interpreted as threat/anger sounds (I get hissed at for misbehavin', or at other times when someone's just plain mad at the world or feeling fiesty - but that hissing is more of a buzzing than a sssss or ssshhhh like you'd get in Sushi . . . so I dunno). Hard sounds like K aren't a problem, either, at least for Claude, who has recently become very fond of saying "Okay." (and Edgar does a quite passable "Hey bird," so B sounds can be done, though I think she kind of swallows the terminal D). Not that either of my beasties has a very clear voice at the best of times.

This might be a really interesting sort of question for p_l, though I know conures are not known for ability to mimic human speech. I saw a really cute video on YouTube a while ago of a green-cheek saying "Jack you're all wet," and he was pretty easy to understand, though he ran all the words together as one.