Blue Budgie Bird
by Terri Mills
Title
Blue Budgie Bird
Artist
Terri Mills
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Blue Budgie taken at Lowry Park Zoo. ©Terri Mills
Taken from http://www.zille.com/gates/about.asp
Budgerigar?
The budgie (aka budgerigar) is the most popular cage bird in the world. The inexpensive little budgerigar can become a most faithful companion because of its cheerful personality, its adaptability to new surroundings and the ability to chatter in a very short time. It can be easily trained, has a great talent for acrobatics and has an incredible capacity for mimicry of many sounds, including the human voice. The budgie will generally learn to talk (both sexes have the ability to talk), and become more affectionate if it is kept by itself, due to the attachment formed with family members.
The sex of mature budgerigars is easily distinguished. Adult birds have a waxy skin around the nostrils, called the cere, which is a rich blue color in the male. In the female it is whitish, tan or brown. Young budgies can easily be distinguished from adults by their coat feathers. Young birds have striped markings running from the back of the neck extending over the crown of the head to the top of the bill. When their first adult plumage appears (between 3-5 months), the immatures moult out these barred patterns, replacing them with a clear colored mask, yellow in the green birds and white in the blue birds. The ideal purchase for an indoor pet should be a healthy male baby bird, one around 6 weeks of age and still in its juvenile plumage. With proper care, your budgie may live 12 to 15 years.
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August 17th, 2011
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