For green-cheeked conures
Care, safety and training for green-cheeked conures
LunarKiri is a free web app for the daily work of keeping a conure well: a routine you actually tick off, a weight log that warns you when the trend turns, a sourced list of what is dangerous, and what to do in the first ten minutes of an emergency.
Free · works offline · installs like an app
It is not veterinary advice. Conures are a prey species and hide illness until late, so a bird that looks "a bit off" can already be seriously unwell. If something is wrong, call an avian vet first and read afterwards. What that means in full.
Measured, not marketed
What is inside, counted
These numbers are read out of the app’s own data every time this page is generated — none of them is an estimate.
- 304hazard entries reviewed106 foods · 114 plants · 42 household · 42 woods
- 15guide chaptersfrom the first weigh-in to hormonal season
- 43training stepsacross 6 paced modules
- 21behaviour outcomesbiting, screaming, plucking and more
- 21veterinary sources citedevery entry links its own
- 18languages in the appEnglish and Romanian on this site
See it
Three minutes, the whole app
The daily work, made checkable
Six things the app does, and the reason each one exists.
Daily care routine
Food, water, fresh vegetables, out-of-cage time and cleaning — a checklist with streaks and a calendar you can look back over.
Weight tracking with alerts
A conure’s weight is the earliest honest signal you get. The app charts it and says when a drop is worth a call.
Hazards directory
Foods, plants, household risks and woods, each with its veterinary source — and a plain verdict rather than a maybe.
Emergency mode
Your own vets’ numbers, first-aid steps, and a triage guide that starts with the question a vet will ask first.
Learning that sticks
A structured guide, flashcards with spaced repetition, quizzes and badges — most conure problems are solved before they start.
Family Mode
Share one bird’s care with the people who also look after it, so the routine does not depend on one memory.
How it starts
From opening it to a ticked routine
Open it
It runs in the browser and installs like an app. The safety content is readable without an account.
Add your bird
A name and a weight are enough to start; the vets you would call in an emergency go in beside them.
Tick the routine
Food, water, vegetables, time out of the cage, cleaning — checked off as the day goes.
Learn as you go
Chapters, quizzes and flashcards, paced in minutes a day — with your streak keeping score.
“Can she eat this?”, answered with a source
Type a food, a plant or a wood and get the app’s verdict: safe, caution, dangerous — or an honest “unknown”, which is a real answer too.
Every one of the 304 entries names the veterinary reference it came from, so you never have to take a forum’s word for it.
Family Mode
The routine survives the person who set it up
One bird, several phones. The same checklist, the same weight log, the same notes — kept by whoever is home.
Nobody feeds twice
A tick made on one phone is on the other before the seed cup is down. Holidays, school weeks and shift work stop depending on one person remembering everything.
Nobody loses the record
Leaving a household removes the access, never the bird’s history. The weights and the notes belong to the bird, not to the phone that typed them.
A look around
Every screen has one job
Swipe through — these are the app’s main screens.
Check the myth
What owners arrive believing
Half of new-owner questions start from one of these. The sources say otherwise.
A little avocado won’t hurt — it’s just fruit.
Avocado is on the dangerous list: persin is toxic to birds, and the safe amount is none. The foods directory links the veterinary source on the entry itself.
If the kitchen smells fine, the air is fine.
Overheated non-stick coatings release fumes that can kill a bird in minutes, with no smell you would notice. It is the first thing the household hazards directory teaches.
A quiet bird is a calm bird.
A conure is a prey animal and hides illness. Quiet, fluffed and low in the cage is a red flag the first-week guide tells you to act on, not wait out.
Seeds are what parrots eat.
An all-seed bowl is the classic route to malnutrition. The food chapters walk the green, grey and red zones a healthy diet is built from.
The first week
Seven days of not rushing it
The settling-in plan the app walks you through — each day has three small jobs and a reason.
- 🚪 Day 1
Arrive and leave alone
Almost everything you want to do today is better done next week. The bird has just lost every landmark it had; the job is a quiet room and no demands.
- 🍽️ Day 2
Prove it is eating
A frightened bird can sit beside a full bowl for a day without touching it, and a small bird has very little in reserve. Droppings are the proof, not the bowl.
- 🩺 Day 3
Book the check-up, keep other birds apart
Birds hide illness well enough that a new one can look perfect and not be. The first vet visit is a baseline for a healthy bird, not a reaction to a sick one.
- 🌙 Day 4
Sleep, light and where the cage is not
Most of what makes a new bird settle is dull and structural: a long dark night, a predictable day, and a room that is not quietly dangerous.
- 👀 Day 5
Learn what calm looks like on this bird
You cannot notice a change you never learned the baseline of. Spend today watching rather than doing, and learn this particular bird rather than birds in general.
- 🗓️ Day 6
Start the routine you can actually keep
Predictability is what turns a strange room into a territory. The routine matters more for being the same every day than for being elaborate.
- 🤝 Day 7
Decide whether it is settled, then begin
A settled bird eats in front of you, moves around the cage while you are in the room, and calls when you leave. If that is where you are, taming starts now — and it has its own protocol in this app.
The 6 red flags that mean a vet call, not patience, are on the same page. Read the whole first week →
Small bird.Long story.Same moon.
A green-cheek is decades of company in a pocketful of feathers. The app is how a household keeps up with all of it.
Owners
What owners say
There are no testimonials yet — these three cards show where they will live, once real owners have said real things.
[Quote to come — two or three sentences from a real owner about the first month with the app.]
[Quote to come — what changed about the routine, in the owner’s own words.]
[Quote to come — a correction a reader sent, and what happened to it.]
Asked early and often
Is it really free?
Yes. Every feature is free and there is no advertising — no safety information, no care feature and no data of yours sits behind a payment. An optional supporter program unlocks how things LOOK and nothing more — ten colour themes, five named after real green-cheek mutations, a builder for mixing your own, twelve extra typefaces and ten frames for the card you share. What that card says about your bird is free. The one thing that costs money is storage space for more than 100 photos of the day per bird, which at one photo a day takes over three months to reach — and what it costs is what that space costs us, nothing on top. Paying for it also keeps the project online for everyone else, so the colour themes come with it as a thank-you. What that costs.
Does it work offline?
Yes — that is the point. A hazards list is least useful when you have signal and most useful when you do not. Once loaded, the app keeps working with no network.
Is this veterinary advice?
No. It is a care and learning tool. Conures hide illness until late, so if your bird seems unwell, call an avian vet first and read afterwards. The disclaimer says this properly.
Which languages does it speak?
The app carries 18 languages. The website is published in English and Romanian so far.
Do you track visitors?
No third party ever sees you here. Usage is counted on our own server, without cookies and without anything that identifies you — the privacy policy has the details.
Who is Kiri?
A Moon Cheek green-cheeked conure — pale cream feathers, a moon-yellow chest, one nail short. The app grew out of caring for him, and he is the reason the moon is all over this site.
Start before you need it
The best time to learn the red flags is a quiet afternoon, not the evening something is wrong.
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