Size of nares on young green cheek conure?

[Shutterbugmom]

I visited my future gcc today, and was very pleased with what I saw. The home was very nice and clean (lovely, in fact ), the babies' cages in the house were very clean, etc. We visited with them in the kitchen and they were all snuggled up in a basket. So cute!

Anyway, the baby that has been reserved for me - by all signs that I knew to look for - looked very healthy and acted normally as far as I could tell (I've owned cockatiels and English budgies before, so I know a little something about birds), and was just as sweet as can be. However, the nares on this particular bird appeared visibly smaller than the nares on the other birds.

Should I be concerned about this? Two of the other birds were still unreserved, but, of course, I fell in love with this one.

Jo

[rowdy]

What is nares???

[Ringneckmom]

Nares are the nose holes.

I wouldn't worry too much at this point - some birds just have bigger or smaller nares than another. I have seen blue and gold macaws that had real small ones and some that had real big ones.
I also see the same thing in my ringnecks and Tiels. As long as they are not blocked up and he is healthy you should be okay.
If it concerns you then ask the breeder about - just say you noticed that his were smaller and wondered about the difference in size from the others.
Try to do it in a nice way that won't be taken wrong.

Sort of like "How come this one has big nose hole and this one doesn't?"