All about Senegals and Pi's

[safarichick101]

Can someone give me a good description of both? :D

[Greycloud]

I am assuming you mean personality description and not physical.
Senegals are considered a medium to small parrot. They are very clownish and playful and can learn to talk in scratchy voices. They are great apartment birds as they tend not to suffer screaming fits. Remember all parrots scream. Their loud voices are definitely tolerable. Some are known to snuggle and they love head scratches. They can, like all parrots tend to be one person birds.
There are many pi's to chose from and my experience has only been with white capped and blue headed pionus. I find them to be wonderful birds and pi's are so much more colorful in light then on photo. They have an ability to talk but it varies with species and each individual bird. My girlfriends WC does not speak at all. She is 15 yr old. My 1 yr old blue head said tons of things. They have little robot sounding voices. I find blue heads to be welcomong of other family members but prefered me. They can tend to be a little shy and sometimes flighty. Again this is so different with each bird. His brothers are not flighty but only go to one prefered member of the family. They are very playful and mine especially liked bells. He could get loud screeching when he played but it was well worth his happiness.
I think you should meet some breeders and their birds and take it from there.

[safarichick101]

Which one do you suppose would make a better pet for say... a 13 year old girl who has to go to school for about 7 hours a day, and I do Dance on Thursdays which... is about 3 hours. Mostly though, I have my hands very free for a teenager. I want a bird that will make me most content, like minimal "mbs symptoms." I'm between a gcc, a senegal, a pionus, and *possibly* blue crowned conure.

I realize I need to meet some birds before I make my decision, but.... I live about 2 1/2 hours away from the nearest (and the best) bird store, so its a bit out of my parent's way. My dads willing to take me, but it probably has to be a double trip (combined with something else that needs to be done in the big city).

[Greycloud]

I would look in the back of a Birdtalk mag. They have breeders listed by state. You might be surprised at how close one lives.
GCC are great little birds and great for teens. They are very cuddly and some talking ability. They do tend to be nippy at times, especially during adolescence.
I love all the pois-senegals, meyers, brown heads, jardines, red bellies and capes. They tend to settle nicely and again a respectful teen would work well with one. Expect nips now and again. Being from the african family many tend to talk.
Pi's are great too. Great medium size birds and mine were good talkers. Good for a secure teen.
Blue crowns, very loud! I would not own one but that is just one persons opinion. Many here like them. They are very playful and cuddly, can talk, but loud. Did I say loud.
I think you should get the bird you are attracted to for all reasons. It will develop into what it is by how you react with it and deal with behaviors that will continually change through outs it's life. Some days it will like you and somedays not. The important think is to let your bird learn to trust you and you will trust it.
I want to add that the bird needs lots of toys and foraging toys to keep it busy when you are not around.