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Hey, /an/.

Could anyone tell me what species this little parakeet is? Google turned nothing.

He just showed up at our windowstep, 5am, waking everyone up with its cries for attention. After managing to bring it inside with some papaya bits and a handy umbrella, we decided on finding out what species it is, then checking if it's allowed to be kept as a pet.
If not, we'll give it away to the related organ to be properly cared for, since there's a lot of bird species that have migrated from the country to the city where I am.

But, while I can't get my hands on a bird-specialist vet, I turn to you for help. More pics to come, and apologizing right away for shitty quality, from a shitty phone.
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Here's one of him scratching, you can see his blue feathers from the lower part of the wing.
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More scratching, and you can see he's pretty young from his head.
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Yet more scratching, and you can see he's got quite the tail.

Any help is appreciated. We'd really like him to see his proper destiny, since he's really easy-going. But we looked all afternoon, and no one around the blocks claimed him, so.
>> Anonymous
The bare ring around the eye means he's a member of the Conure family. I don't have time to dig, but here's a list you can thumb through to find your little boy.

http://www.avianweb.com/conuresspecies.htm
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On further review, your boy seems to be a juvenile dusky headed conure. He'll get the gray plumage in a few months more.

Conures are not parakeets, but rather come from South America and are related to Macaws. I've had Jendays and Half Moon conures before, and they're sweet, if loud. They'll live ~30 years if you take care of them. Don't feed them seed if you can help it - seed junkies don't live very long.
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>>268880

Holy shit, I think I found him:

http://www.avianweb.com/cactusconure.html

I think it's more likely for him to be a Cactus conure than a Dusky, since this species is endemic to this area (brazilian caatinga), although there's a few of them migrating slowly to the cities due to illegal aprehension. His beak is kind of losing the outside coating, but probably because is young.

They're an endangered species here, and from his easy-going mood, I'm thinking he was being kept captive, but I can't tell, really.

Tomorrow I'm taking these pics to one of the Biology teachers and asking for sure. Would you recommend on other type of food? The papaya we gave him was splattered all over the room, and we ended up picking out the seeds on our hamsters food and giving it to him in the meantime, but now I'm worried.

I'll be buying a decent cage for him if he's OK to have after all. We put him in the biggest hamster cage we have, since it's only temporary.

Thank you so very much for your help, I can start to tend to the little guy better now.
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Yup, there you go. Cactus conure. Nice find! I don't know what the pet stores carry in Brazil, but here in California they sell stuff like this. It has some seed, but also some kibble-type stuff to balance it out.

Don't worry too much if all you can give him is seed. My parents' wild caught blue and gold macaw lived for 40 years on the stuff. Just supplement it with fruit. Congrats on your pet!
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>>268889

Well, now what's left is clearing his captivity status, but since I'll only be able to take him anywhere in a couple of days, I'm buying at least some proper food for him, since I don't think hamster pellets will do him good. Right now he's munching on a almond/sunflower mix with an apple piece thrown in, I hope he's ok with it for now.

Thank you again, kind Anon. I'll sleep well tonight, even if only 'til 5am.

Here's another tiny profile to wrap it up.