More than 11,000 species of birds have been identified to date. Several are kept as house pets, including cockatiels, cockatoos, and other parrot breeds, such as the budgerigar. While the name may ...

This article is part of the “Who would win?” series, where wildlife experts dream up hypothetical battles between animals (all in the name of science). Who would have thought the budgerigar, Australia ...

Bruce Schuster pampers his budgerigars with shampoo spritzes and a daily superfood medley. "My wife thinks they're better fed than she is," the 77-year-old says. "It's got all the nice vitamins in ...

Although, many publications describe diseases in budgerigars, they are not generally available in the laboratory animal literature. The work-up and diagnosis of disease in budgerigars is no different ...

Poke about in many a memory, and bingo, there’s often a budgie. In Mark Carter’s case it’s Bluey, an ’80s childhood pet last sighted in a gnarled old pear tree on the banks of the Annick Water in ...