Budgies

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Also called budgerigars or parakeets

An extremely popular pet bird and for good reason. These small parrots make delightful pets and are usually friendly and easy to tame. While they can sometimes be difficult to understand, they are also quite capable of mimicking speech.

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Life Span of Budgies

10-15 years (but sometimes up to 20 years)

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Colors of Budgies

The normal wild coloration of a budgie is a light green with black bars on their wings, back, and head.

Young budgies have bar markings on their forehead that recedes with age and their eyes typically have dark irises that gradually become gray with age. Through selective breeding, a huge variety of colors and patterns are available in the pet trade such as violet, blue, yellow, pied, albino, and the classic neon green.

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Behavior of Budgies

Budgies are gentle and docile birds. They are also very easy to tame, especially if acquired at a young age.  A single bird can be fine as long as you spend a significant amount of time interacting with the budgie on a daily basis. Budgies are also very playful, active, and quieter than some other parrots.

Budgies are the single most popular pet bird.  Unfortunately it is not possible to guarantee the sex of the budgie at an early age but after the age of about 3 months old, the cere has turned blue for a cock bird or brown for a hen.

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