Sun Parakeet Aratinga solstitialis is restricted to central Guyana and Roraima state, Brazil, and may previously have occurred in Surinam¹. Though it was fairly common until the 1970s in the Rupununi-Roraima savannas of western Guyana and adjacent Brazil, it has since been extirpated there, presumably by trappers, and it is now very scarce or absent across its former range. In Brazil it was recorded from the Mau river, Contão Cotingo river and Maracá Ecological Station² during the 1990s. Its stronghold is probably the Sipaliwini and flocks of up to 12 birds have been recently recorded at the Terra Indígena Raposa Serra do Sol, and alongside the road from Santa Helena (Venezuela) to Boa Vista 50 km from the border and 1.5 km from the Venezuelan border on the road to Boa Vista^3,4. In Guyana evidence of nesting has been found in the Karasabai area where 50-80 individuals were seen in 2003, and c.25 km from this site there are recent records from Karanambo (c. 30 km from the Brazilian border at Bonfim), and on the West Bank of Demerara in 2006^4,5. Its population probably now numbers no more than a couple of thousand individuals, and may even be less than a thousand³, with at least 90% of these in Brazil.