Budgies
Comparing the exhibition budgerigar with most pet budgies is like comparing a Cessna with the Space Shuttle - the origins are the same but a huge degree of development separates them. Compare this to the high-profile horse racing industry - which ... [... more]
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Backyard Birds
There is nothing as satisfying as breeding your own birds, whether they be budgies or finches. You can also attract native birds to your garden by putting in some native plants, which provide them with food and shelter. Australian finch species, ... [... more]
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Breeding Budgies
Budgerigars have a coloured area above their beaks, called a cere. In males the cere is coloured light to dark blue. A male bird in breeding condition will have a deep blue cere in most varieties. He won't have any pin feathers, and his plumage ... [... more]
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Glowing Budgies
Don visited Dr Justin Marshall at the University of Queensland's Department of Vision, Touch and Hearing. Dr Marshall and his colleagues have discovered that the ultraviolet pigments on budgerigars' feathers play a big role in their ... [... more]
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Wild Budgies
With more than 300,000 exhibition budgerigars bred in Australia annually it's the world's most competitive animal. But what of its wild cousin - the bird which began it all? Wild budgerigars are quite small, slim, athletic birds when compared to ... [... more]
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