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When you’re looking for a small bird as a pet, parakeets or budgies are generally recommended. The truth is that a budgie is a parakeet! It can be quite confusing, but only in the U.S. is a budgie ...

Male budgie birds who show smarts become more attractive in the eyes of female counterparts, a new study suggests. According to the results, direct observation of "clever behavior," such as the ...

It's one year on since I last weighed our budgies, so a quick step onto the scales shows that both budgies have piled on a ton of weight in just one year! Though are they overweight or not, after all ...

Dear Elaine, One of my budgies recently died. Dear Elaine, One of my budgies recently died. I don't know exactly how old he was but I had had him for seven years. My remaining female budgie is eating, ...

The parakeet is one of the the world’s most successful invasive species. Though they are not native to the UK, ring-necked parakeets are now so numerous here that they qualify as a common British bird ...