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    The Sun Parakeet is a medium-sized, brightly colored parrot native to northeastern South America. Adults are predominantly golden-yellow with orange underparts and face. It is endangered due to loss of habitat and trapping for the pet trade. Juveniles have a predominantly green plumage that matures to the distinctive yellow, orange, and red coloring. They live in social groups of up to 30 and nest in palm cavities, feeding on fruits, flowers, berries and nuts.

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    The Sun Parakeet is a medium-sized, brightly colored parrot native to northeastern South America. Adults are predominantly golden-yellow with orange underparts and face. It is endangered due to loss of habitat and trapping for the pet trade. Juveniles have a predominantly green plumage that matures to the distinctive yellow, orange, and red coloring. They live in social groups of up to 30 and nest in palm cavities, feeding on fruits, flowers, berries and nuts.

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    The Sun Parakeet is a medium-sized, brightly colored parrot native to northeastern South America. Adults are predominantly golden-yellow with orange underparts and face. It is endangered due to loss of habitat and trapping for the pet trade. Juveniles have a predominantly green plumage that matures to the distinctive yellow, orange, and red coloring. They live in social groups of up to 30 and nest in palm cavities, feeding on fruits, flowers, berries and nuts.

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    Sun Conure

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    The Sun Parakeet is a medium-sized, brightly colored parrot native to northeastern South America. Adults are predominantly golden-yellow with orange underparts and face. It is endangered due to loss of habitat and trapping for the pet trade. Juveniles have a predominantly green plumage that matures to the distinctive yellow, orange, and red coloring. They live in social groups of up to 30 and nest in palm cavities, feeding on fruits, flowers, berries and nuts.

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    The Sun Parakeet or Sun Conure (Aratinga solstitialis) is a medium-sized brightly colored parrot native

    to northeastern South America. The adult male and female are similar in appearance, with
    predominantly golden-yellow plumage and orange-flushed underparts and face. It is commonly kept in
    aviculture. The species is endangered, threatened by loss of habitat and trapping for the pet trade.

    On average, Sun Parakeets weigh approximately 110 g (4 oz) and are around 30 cm (12 in) long.
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    They are sexually monomorphic.

    Adults have a rich yellow crown, nape, mantle, lesser wing-coverts, tips of the greater wing-
    coverts, chest, and underwing-coverts. The face and belly are orange with red around the ears.
    The base of the greater wing-coverts, tertials, and base of the primaries are green, while the
    secondaries, tips of the primaries, and most of the primary coverts are dark blue. The tail is olive-
    green with a blue tip. From below, all the flight feathers are dark greyish. The bill is black. The
    legs and the bare eye-ring are grey, but the latter often fades to white in captivity (so using
    amount of grey or white in the eye-ring for determining "purity" of an individual can be
    misleading). It is easily confused with the closely related Jandaya Parakeet and Sulphur-breasted
    Parakeet, but the former has entirely green wing-coverts, mantle and vent, while the latter has
    green mottling to the mantle and less orange to the underparts. The Sun Parakeet is also
    superficially similar to the pale-billed Golden Parakeet.

    Juvenile Sun Parakeets display a predominantly green plumage and resemble similar-aged
    Sulphur-breasted Parakeets. The distinctive yellow, orange, and reddish colouration on the back,
    abdomen, and head is attained with maturity.

    Its exact ecological requirements remain relatively poorly known. It is widely reported as
    occurring in savanna and coastal forests, but recent sightings suggest it mainly occurs at the edge
    of humid forest growing in foothills in the Guiana Shield, and crosses more open habitats only
    when traveling between patches of forest.

    Like other members of the genus Aratinga, the Sun Parakeet is social and typically occurs in
    groups of up to 30 individuals. It has been reported as nesting in palm cavities. It mainly feeds on
    fruits, flowers, berries, nuts, and the like. Otherwise, relatively little is known about its behavior
    in the wild, in part due to confusion over what information refers to the Sun Parakeet and what
    refers to the Sulphur-breasted Parakeet. Regardless, the behavior of the two is unlikely to differ
    to any great extent.

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