Wild parakeet breeding populations are established in more than 30 countries They're good at adapting to new environments, and there are few natural predators outside native area Love them or hate ...

Who would have thought the budgerigar, Australia’s most petite parrot and a denizen of our arid and semi-arid inland, would become the most popular pet bird in the world? The budgerigar’s world ...

Many, many years ago, when I was a kid, I used to enjoy visiting my spinster aunt in Cincinnati because she had a pet parakeet or what some people call a "budgie." I've always assumed these parakeets ...

Finding birds all over your car isn’t most people’s idea of fun. After all, with birds comes bird poop, and who wants that all over their vehicle? But maybe it depends on the type of bird that visits ...

Every morning in Tokyo’s Setagaya ward, flocks of parakeets would fly to an elm tree near Yoshinori Mizutani’s home. The parakeets, an uncommon sight in Japan with their bright-green feathers and ...

Stuck with two cockatiels and a lonesome lovebird in a cage in Liz Lynch’s sunroom in Queens, Elvis the parrot seems like just another ordinary pet-shop purchase. But outside Lynch’s windows are signs ...

Whether seen in flocks resembling large green tornadoes in central Australia, or in your home as a family pet, budgies are Australia’s most ubiquitous bird. AUSTRALIA’S NATIVE budgerigars have bright ...

While budgies and parrots might be known for their powers of speech, this particular bird takes his grasp of English to a whole new level. In fact Disco the budgie – one of the stars of the BBC’s new ...

BIZARRE footage shows a family releasing a pet budgie into the wild – only for their pet dog to snatch the poor bird and run off with it. The short clip, which was uploaded to Twitter by Mexican mixed ...