Can conures eat sunflower seeds?

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With caution
Sunflower seeds · for conures

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

What it means for conures

In moderation conures can enjoy sunflower seeds, but it's rich, so keep it to a treat rather than a daily food. A conure can handle a moderate portion.

The full picture on 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.

See the full sunflower seeds guide or the Conure diet guide for more.

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