I'm in Minnesota and we used to breed birds. I would go with a pionus parrot. They are very quiet don't get crazy mean. I would really think twice about conures. We used to raise suns, jendays, nandays, green cheeks, and blue crowned conures, all very noisy and nippy. Always buy a handfed bird when possible. I have one bird left that we are thinking about selling. He is a white capped pionus. He is really sweet and is a cool bird. They are pretty shy birds though. We raised blue headed pionus and white capped pionus's. Parrotlets are cool too. We had pacifics for years. Really sweet little birds. If you weren't so far away we would give you a really good deal on our white cap. He has a huge cage and is very tame and only around a year old.