The orange-chinned parakeet is a small common parakeet with a green body and brown shoulder and upperwing coverts on the wings. It has a small orange patch in its chin. The orange-chinned parakeet is a social bird usually observed in flocks. It is frequently observed flying about or feeding in the open on exposed branches, in open woodlands, savannas, forest edges, parks and gardens. Like most other parrots, parakeets, the orange-chinned parakeet nests in adopted cavities or it excavates its own hole in a soft substrate.