DoubleTake

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R.I.P Lily 3/1/2018 - You were my sweet baby.
How do you tell the difference between a pure bred Sun Conure as a baby and adult? Is it true that baby pure bred Sun Conures MUST have a yellow shoulder?

It is very difficult to tell as babies. But at 4 years of age, it should look like an adult sun conure. If the bird has mostly green wings with specs of yellow and the colors of the face has more orange than yellow. I would guess that she probably has a Sunday. Do you have picture? My mated pair are 4 years old and the baby(Chloe) is 10 months in my signature. She is about 14 months now and she just has a little bit of green left.
 
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kiwithecockapoo

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He/she looks a lot like your baby Chloe but at 4 years.
But seeing your babies made me question if my baby girl Sun Conure is a hybrid.
This is my baby female Sun Conure
 

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DoubleTake

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2 Sun Conures.

R.I.P Lily 3/1/2018 - You were my sweet baby.
He/she looks a lot like your baby Chloe but at 4 years.
But seeing your babies made me question if my baby girl Sun Conure is a hybrid.
This is my baby female Sun Conure

I think my guys just were very high yellow when they were babies. He/She looks like Chloe in the picture or in my signature?

Your baby still looks young, she could very well be a sunny as most of them look like yours when they are young. Only time will tell. Think mine may just be an exception.
 
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kiwithecockapoo

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Haha. Sorry. I meant he/she looks like your signature picture Chloe.
But I was wondering since my other Sun conure had yellow shoulders when he was a baby too. But my female baby doesnt seem to have any yellow shoulders. It sort of reminded me of my friend's Sun Conure since he/she was very green as a baby.
 

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All the pictures posted here look like baby sun conures. There are some extremely green sun conure chicks, so not having yellow on the wings at a young age is not a clear determination of them being a hybrid.

Sundays typically look more like jendays than they do suns, but they do have some decidedly "sun" looks. Below is a picture that includes 1 sun conure, 1 jenday, and their hybrid offspring. Compare heads, wings and stomachs.


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Taprock

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Buzz - CAG,
Ziggy - Nanday/Sun Conure,
Jasper - Goffin
Loki - Starling
Gloria - Foster CAG
We have what we believe is a sun nanday conure. He looks nothing like a sun but does still have a small yellow spot on his shoulders.

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LordTriggs

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Rio (Yellow sided conure) sadly no longer with us
We have what we believe is a sun nanday conure. He looks nothing like a sun but does still have a small yellow spot on his shoulders.

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WOW what a unique looking Conure. in a few years when DNA sequencing is a bit better it'll be interesting to get a look at his genetic make-up and figure just what is in there
 

clark_conure

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A crossover Quaker Scuti (F), A Sun conure named AC, A Cinnamon Green Cheek conure Kent, and 6 budgies, Scuti Jr. (f), yellow (m), clark Jr. (m), Dot (f), Zebra(f), Machine (m).
I have no response to this.....I was looking at all the pictures and fell in love and lost all train of thought..........anyways hope you figure out whatever you were looking for :)
 

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