Can parrots eat sunflower seeds?

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With caution
Sunflower seeds · Grains & Seeds

Yes, but ration them — sunflower seeds are safe yet so fatty and addictive that parrots will eat them to the exclusion of everything else.

Keeper's noteFlip the script: pull them out of the food bowl entirely and use them one at a time as training currency. A sunflower seed earned is worth ten free-fed.

What to watch out for with sunflower seeds

Sunflower seeds are the potato chips of the bird world: high fat, high reward, low effort. A seed-junkie parrot eating a sunflower-heavy mix is on the road to obesity, fatty liver disease, and malnutrition — the classic diet problem in budgies, cockatiels, and conures.

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