The first week with a green-cheeked conure
Almost everything that goes wrong in the first week goes wrong because somebody was trying too hard. A newly moved conure does not need enrichment, training or a bond. It needs to be left alone long enough to decide the room is not going to kill it.
This is not veterinary advice. If the bird is fluffed up on the cage floor, breathing with an open beak or with a visibly pumping tail, bleeding, or has not eaten in a day, stop reading and call an avian vet. Why this matters more than it sounds.
The seven days themselves live in the reference
What to do on each of the seven days, the six signs that mean an avian vet today rather than tomorrow, and the veterinary sources behind them are the care reference's job, and it walks them one at a time.
The rest of this article is the part a checklist has no room for: why the restraint works, why the weight on your scale matters more than the number for the species, and which accidents actually happen.
Why doing less works
Do not open the door to let the bird out, however ready it looks. A conure that comes out before it is confident often cannot work out how to get back, and the recapture teaches it that hands are the thing that ends freedom — a lesson that takes far longer to undo than the week you would have saved.
Put the cage somewhere the family already is. A conure isolated in a spare room for its own peace and quiet learns that people appearing is an event, which is the opposite of what you want. Talking and reading out loud near a cage you are not touching is doing something, even though it does not feel like it.
And expect food that appears untouched. Some of it has usually been eaten — conures are messy, and a great deal of what looks like a full bowl is husk.
The number that matters is this bird's, not the species'
Green-cheeks typically sit somewhere around 60–80 g, and that range is close to useless for the bird in front of you. A perfectly healthy conure can live at either end of it. What tells you something is this bird's own baseline, and the only way to have one later is to start writing numbers down now.
Weight is the earliest honest signal a prey species gives you. A steady figure that starts sliding is worth a call even when the bird looks fine — and a bird that looks fine is exactly what a conure does when it is ill. LunarKiri charts the trend and raises its alert on that rather than on a single reading, which is what stops one soggy-vegetable morning from looking like a crisis.
The accidents that actually happen
The most common serious accidents in a bird's first month are not dietary. They are non-stick cookware overheated in a kitchen with the bird nearby, aerosols and scented candles, and open water deep enough to drown in. None of them announce themselves, all of them are in the room rather than in the cage, and all of them are preventable by somebody who knows to look.
Where to go next
The day-by-day checklist is the first week at home, and the food directory answers whether a specific thing is safe before you offer it. The app keeps your place through the week and starts the weight record on day one.