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 ...

A nesting association between invasive and native bird species can counteract predators to aid the spread of an invasive species across non-urban habitats, where the invasives may become crop pests A ...

Humans and dogs aren’t the only ones that can pass along yawns. They appear to be contagious among parakeets, too. Budgies are the first nonmammal species to exhibit contagious yawning in experiments ...

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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 ...

Parakeets form new friendships by slowly testing how close they can safely get to unfamiliar birds. This careful process ...