Sun parrots have splayed legs, which are unsightly and stick out, making them unsteady when walking.
The sun conure (scientific name: Aratinga solstitialis) is a typical climbing bird with a strong and powerful beak, a hooked beak, a movable joint in the upper jaw, and a wax film at the base of the beak. Muscular tongue thick. The feet are short, powerful, and toed, with two toes forward and two toes backward, suitable for grasping and climbing. Most of the parrot's feathers and body are golden yellow, with a little orange tint on the top of the head, on both sides of the cheeks, on the lower abdomen, and on the lower back. Mainly inhabit dry, semi-deciduous broad-leaved forests and wooded savannas. Their food is seeds, berries, fruits, nuts, insects and their larvae. They usually move in pairs and gather in small groups during the breeding season. They are distributed in Brazil and Guyana.
The Sun Conure is 30 cm long and weighs 120-130 grams. Most of the body of this parrot is golden yellow, with a hint of orange on the top of the head, both sides of the cheeks, lower abdomen and lower back; the main coverts on the inner side of the tail are dark green with a hint of golden yellow, and the main feathers on the wings are The flight feathers are dark green with blue tips; the secondary flight feathers on the outside of the wings are golden yellow with some dark green feathers; there is a ring of white bare skin outside the eyes; the beak is black and the iris is dark brown . The body color of young birds is the same as that of adult birds, but the head is golden with many green feathers, and the wings are mostly green.