Exactly as you tell! My white capped pionus is super good pet!!! He’s not for cuddling!😂 he hate it!! But with patient he’s now: accepting kisses and more cuddling! But with a lot of patient!!! The first time we meet he almost cut off my finger😂🥰 I bought him all grown up thats why

Honestly I'd say they are the best apartment birds you could ever own. My favorite thing my Pionus does is runs under my bed and gets just out of my reach and says, "come on" over and over. The only negative my thing mine does is she will puke on my big toe if I'm not watching. I feel like she thinks it's her baby.

Mine is very active! A lot!!! And screams so loud (when He wants food or His brother is away)🤦🏻‍♀️🤣🤣 Is absolutely beautiful!! The colors are so unique! its with no doubt my favorite kind of parrot!

I’m thinking my girl is actually a boy! Got her sexed but she’s quite the talker and not gonna lie, not the quietest lol I love how she just wants to hang out, most affection i can give her is helping with her pin feathers. She’s shy with new people for sure and that’s when she’ll let you know how she’s feeling. But after years of research and waiting, I couldn’t have made a better choice of first bird! Love my girl

I've had a white cap named Gina for about ten years now, and I adore her - though she's definitely a one-person bird. She likes hanging out with me, and she actually really likes scritches, and often decides to groom the back of my head. Admittedly, she's at best aloof with almost everyone else though. She accepts my dad if need be, but despite my mother's best efforts, she's never warmed up to my mother. Gina sees her as competition for my attention I think, and she tries to take out the competition. Also really hated my poor aunt on sight, who I guess looks too much like my mother for Gina's liking. Pionus parrots also have this quirk where they make wheezing noises when they're excited or agitated, and it scares the ever-loving Hell out of you at first because it sounds like they're having an asthma attack or something. At my parents' place, she'll make occasional contact calls with the birds in the living room. She stays in my room when I visit, because the birds in the living room are dusty species and pionus parrots don't deal very well with dust. She also went through a phase where she'd wake me up in the morning by repeatedly flinging a metal toy against the side of her cage until I got up. Apart from that though, she's very quiet; she'd be fine in an apartment. She speaks a little bit, but as you say, her voice isn't very clear. Like many birds, one of her favourite games is the 'clam right up and don't make so much as a single peep, so that your person looks like an idiot after someone asks if you can talk and your person says yes' game. I travel a lot by car, and she's a great traveller; I never have to struggle to convince her to get into the travel cage. She does have a habit of killing time in the car by sharpening her claws, which isn't my favourite of her hobbies... This might be more of a Gina thing than a pionus thing, but even by parrot standards, she's extremely suspicious of any new foods. Took me a full year to get her to try an almond, and another year to try a piece of walnut. She surprised me by finally trying pasta/fruit/vegetables after like EIGHT YEARS! For years, she'd lean away from any new food I tried to give her, and she'd try to fool me into thinking she'd had a bite by making exaggerated chewing motions.

Super ideal, super underrated.

Maximilian’s Pionus owner here. Would agree with that sentiment, so long as you’re ok with them being super chill.

They are really good n really underrated😕 But White caps are really bossy birds, I had a supper tame white capped she was aggressive towards all women n girls but to any man she was tamest one in the world At my work place I saw a pair of white caps cornering 5 amazons 4 blue fronts n 1 red loard

​@@pnathan42 are they good apartment pets?

Definitely will when I get ahold of one!

My green cheek conure is exactly the same what he mentioned on this bird plus he cuddly and cheaper. He be on my shoulder while playing a video game

@@elips0412 That's awesome. I have two budgies currently and they'll sit on their play gym while I work, but they're definitely not cuddly or like being handled at all lol.

Budgie are more energetic birds and louder.

I also got my dusky from Patty's pets!

Congrats! Your Pionus was absolutely amazing and a pleasure to film. Gonna be a great pet!

😂 4 real though

People often just want the most colorful bird that talks. So often the actual better pet birds get overshadowed. One of my reasons for creating this channel.

@@Fivesaflock I chose a Pionus to be my first parrot (living in an apartment) and I'm happy I did. He's not all that quiet yet (not a big problem), but he already knows a few words, he just turned 1. I find the Pionus beautiful and kind. A great parrot.

@@Fivesaflock my Maximilian’s was in an enclosure next to a female eclectus at the aviary, and she was in a screamy mood. Max just kind of hung out there in the back of his cage, observing the chaos. Having had a blue crown conure previously, quiet was a HUGE plus.

@@Monej82 if he's not quiet yet chances are he will never be. That's just his personality

Yeah, I've been considering the BH and the White cap.

I thought about that, doing reviews but also letting my flock be the judge of the products. Once the bird reviews slow down pretty soon, I might try something like that

That's probably the same White Cap I reviewed 😂

@@Fivesaflock lol maybe! He/she has been there for about a month.. I visited a second time and asked the price. I thought it would be way more! So tempting...

Def will when I get my hands on one!

I would say my Pionus poops about every 20ish minutes, give or take.

Hola. Yo quiero uno pero por aquí estoy leyendo que son pájaros de una persona Es cierto. ?? Que experiencia tiene con un cabeza blanca ?? Aquí en España. Si dicen que los alas de bronce son pájaros que escogen a una persona de la familia Sin embargo de los cabeza blanca no dicen eso Espero se respuesta Muchas gracias

I said this because I've done a ton of research on them and wanted to tell you

Sun Conures are great pets!

@@Fivesaflock yes they are

Glad to hear Captain is doing amazing! He was such a great bird when doing this review. So glad to hear he went to an awesome home

I've actually asked him about Capes on a different video! He said he's interested in reviewing them but they're a bit hard to find.

@@disaceter1130 that’s very true

Yeah what Disaceter said, they're very hard to get ahold of. Now with breeding season just about over, It's unlikely I'll get one until next year. Sorry about that. But I would go ahead and say they are awesome parrots and very unique. Any Cape owner I've met and talked to have nothing but good things to say.

I will when I get my hands on one. But in the meantime, I would say Senegals are very similar to Meyer's, but a touch more friendly and less territorial.

@@Fivesaflock thanks so much. I was wondering if they were similar.

For the most part, Pionus are very similar in personality. I would say the individual traits are what would stick out more when they get older.

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Def will when I get ahold of them!

1. Pionus are New World parrots so they are not dusty 2. Yes they can be trained. Everyday when my wife comes home, my BW Pionus flies over to greet her. It's super cute. 3. Generally I recommend people to get 1 parrot so the bird will get attached to the owner as opposed to getting attached to another bird. Unless you have a lot of time to spend with each bird to keep the friendliness up.

Could be. Blue heads I've handled so far have been a touch more skittish for sure. With how hard it is to find Pionus, I haven't had my deep dive into that specific species yet. If you ever get ahold of a breeder and can ask those questions, let me know!

@@Fivesaflock I met the breeder when I went to Mt. Holly, MI. I think last year. She is really nice but I did not ask her any questions about them. Next time I will when I will go back up there. The problem is that the pet store is far away. Til then maybe I will let you know. 😊

Something I've actually been working on for a while! Now that breeding season is coming to an end, I'll be creating some new types of content like this. What kind of things would you like to see the most?

That would be great to do bird toys, cages and stand reviews etc. Also talking about the benefits of having foraging toys to keep pet birds mentally engaged and which ones you'd recommend to new bird owners. I'd keep it species specific because they have different needs which will help new owners know what they can do to keep their feathered companion happy and healthy. 😄

Blue Headed Pionus are great!

I can def talk about it, just not much to say. Tons of breeders have been retiring and a lot of their stock is getting illegally exported out of the USA and into Mexico.