Hello and congratulations on a sweet baby sun!! I had a Jenday years ago and they are similar. Be prepared for some screeching!
My advice to you.. (great advice already given above)
-Get the biggest cage you can afford. The bigger, the better. Birds love their room and should be able to extend their wings comfortably in their cage without the edges touching the sides.
- Get him/her on a good, varied diet right away - pellets, fresh fruit and vegetables, cooked legumes and grains, a small amount of seeds, parrots love variety and often times have a favorite fruit or veggie they go crazy for! Stay away from the TOXIC foods like onion, garlic, rhubarb, alcohol, chocolate.
- Lots of bird owners make a CHOP for their birds (a mix of various fruits, veggies, legumes, grains prepared daily or frozen and portioned out). My thread on what I feed my birds is here,
the CHOP Chronicles! (the pictures aren't there anymore but you get the idea with what I list)
- Think about what you want to train your bird to do and research all you can. Just like teaching a dog tricks, parrots can learn so many tricks. Most bird owners should teach their birds the basic
Stepping up (bird steps up onto your finger),
flight recall (bird flies to you when you call it) and
bite pressure training (bird learns that biting hard is not permitted).
- Socialization is so important! Not only should your new conure be handled by you, but also by different people in your household and your friends. Lots of times birds like Suns have a potential of over-bonding to one person and treat everyone else like an enemy, but with proper socialization this can be prevented.
- You will fall in love! Enjoy it!!
