Feeding a conure the way its owner does
Green-cheeked conures usually eat a measured pellet base plus fresh food daily, and the sitter's note should name both concretely: the amount of pellets, the vegetables and fruits your bird actually eats, and the treats it works for. Conures are enthusiastic, messy eaters that dunk food in water, so tell the sitter the water will need changing more than once a day and that a soupy cup is normal conure behaviour, not a problem to solve by removing the fresh food.
Warn against the easy drift: filling the bowl with seed because the bird prefers it. A week of that is hard to undo at home. If your conure has foods it must not be given, list them in the same note, and say where the food is stored so nobody improvises.
Handling: the honest version
The most valuable thing you can leave a conure sitter is the truth about your bird's temperament. Describe how your conure greets strangers, whether it steps up readily or needs a hand-held perch at first, where it likes to be stroked, and what its warning signals look like: the pinned eyes, the leaning lunge, the beak opened on a finger that pushed too far. A sitter warned that the first day may bring a nip will work patiently with treats and short sessions; a sitter promised a cuddly bird may grab, get bitten, and stop handling the bird altogether.
Explain your actual handling rules too: step-up cues you use, whether shoulder-sitting is allowed, and that the bird should never be grabbed from above or pulled off a perch it is clinging to. Green-cheeked conures bond closely, and a sitter who follows the household's own handling language will be accepted days faster than one inventing their own.
Chewing, bathing, and the bedtime routine
Tell the sitter that chewing is a daily requirement, not misbehaviour. List the wood, cardboard, and shredding toys your conure goes through, where spares are kept, and what in the room must be protected if the bird is out, because a conure left unoccupied on a curtain rail will entertain itself at the rail's expense. An occupied conure with a foraging toy is also a quieter one, which the sitter will appreciate by day two.
Cover bathing honestly: whether your conure bathes in its water cup, a shallow dish, or under a gentle shower spray, and how often. Then set out bedtime in detail. Many green-cheeked conures sleep in a covered cage or a sleep cage in a quiet room for a long, dark stretch, and they can be vocal about a disrupted routine. Give the sitter the cover time, the pre-bed cues your bird gives when it is tired, and permission to put the bird to bed when those cues appear rather than keeping it up for company.
Watching for trouble, and who to call
Describe normal for your bird: its morning energy, its contact calls, its appetite, its droppings. Then the red flags that should bring a call to you and your avian vet: a conure that goes quiet and sits fluffed, refuses favourite foods, breathes hard, or starts plucking at feathers it normally leaves alone. Leave your contacts, a nearby backup person, and the vet's number with authority to act if you cannot be reached. Keeping all of that in KinsLe's Care Pass gives your sitter the conure's routine, quirks, and warning signs together, instead of a pile of separate notes to assemble under pressure.