"Smile!" The Green-cheeked Conure, like all "Pyrrhura" conures, is a colourful parakeet full of personality.
This inquisitive parakeet wants to be a photographer.
The Green-cheeked Conure is native to central South America.
The long, burgundy-coloured tail and red-maroon belly. Like other "Pyrrhuras", male and female have similar plumage.
It has six subspecies including the Argentinian, the Crimson-tailed, the Santa Cruz and the Yellow-sided Conure.
Several colour mutations have been bred in aviculture, including turquoise, above, "cinnamon" and "pineapple".
The Santa Cruz Conure, also called Restricta, above, P. molinae restricta,
is a subspecies of the Green-cheeked Conure "restricted" to a small region of Bolivia.
The Yellow-sided Conure is a natural yellow morph in P. m. hypoxantha that used
to be thought a separate species.