This page is a room with the cage door open. Move your pointer and your bird will hop or fly after you. Choose a different one at the bottom, and tap the notes to open them.
Wild budgies are always green and yellow, and fly in flocks of thousands across the Australian outback. Blue, white and yellow ones were bred later.
A budgie called Puck holds the record for the largest vocabulary of any bird: more than 1,700 words.
The patch above the beak is usually blue in a grown male and brown or pale in a female.
There are more pet budgies in the world than any other bird.
Like other parrots it can turn its head 180 degrees.
Its name is said to come from an Aboriginal word, though nobody is sure what it meant.
The play table
Move your pointer onto the table and wait for your pet to arrive.
Meet them all
Small parrot · from the Australian outback
A small, slim parrot, green with a yellow head, black scalloped bars on its back and wings, and a long blue tail.
Small cockatoo · from Australia
A slender grey bird with a yellow face, bright orange cheek patches, a tall crest and a long tail.
Small parrot · from south-west Africa
A stocky little parrot, bright green with a peach-pink face and a short, rounded tail.
Parrot · from the rainforests of central Africa
A medium-sized grey parrot with scalloped feathers, a pale face, a black beak and a short, bright red tail.
Large parrot · from Central and South America
A huge red parrot with yellow and blue wings, a bare white face, a great hooked beak and a very long tail.
Large parrot · from Australia and New Guinea
A large white parrot with a black beak and a tall, curling crest of yellow feathers.
Good to know
A pet bird needs to fly in a safe room every day. A cage is somewhere to sleep and eat, not to live.
Parrots copy the sounds of their flock. In a house, the flock is you.
A parrot's beak is a tool and a toy. Give it wood and toys to destroy, or it will choose its own.
Fumes from overheated non-stick pans, aerosols and scented candles are deadly to birds.
A lonely, bored parrot may scream or pull out its own feathers.
A budgie may live ten years. A macaw or cockatoo may live sixty.
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A parrot is a wild animal that has agreed to live with you. It needs flight, company and things to do, and the big ones need them for longer than most marriages last.
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