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Bump near birds eye This morning I got my Sun Conure out of his cage and noticed a small bump next to his left eye. It was very small and looked like it could be a small bug bite. He isn't acting any differently and seems fine, but I'm still worried. Any ideas on what it could be?

I find it amazing how much parrot taxonomy has changed since I started keeping parrots. When I started, parrots were treated as one family within the order, and though there were obvious similarities between some genera compared to other, classifications were relatively flat. Genetics has...