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Open my wish list →In the wild, budgerigars are small green and yellow parrots that live in Australia. Here are three true things about them.
Wild budgerigars live throughout the drier parts of Australia. They have survived harsh inland conditions there for over five million years.
SourceBudgerigars are nomadic. Their flocks usually range from as few as three birds to 100 or more, but after a season of plenty of rain and food they can occasionally number in the tens of thousands.
SourceLike most parrots, a budgerigar has feathers that glow under ultraviolet light. This may be linked to how budgerigars choose a mate.
SourceAfter the rain
Budgerigars tend to breed when rain falls. If conditions are right, they can breed at any time of year, and they may raise several broods. The nest is a bare hole in a tree branch or trunk. A clutch has six to eight round white eggs, and the female sits on them. As with other parrots, the chicks are born naked and helpless. They stay in the nest for 35 days. Wild budgerigars feed almost only on the seeds of native herbs and grasses, such as porcupine grass and saltbush. They eat mostly from the ground, and do most of their feeding and drinking in the morning.
SourceTalking birds
Budgerigars, like many other parrots, can copy human speech. Both males and females sing, and both can learn to copy sounds and words, but singing and copying are stronger in males. Females rarely learn more than a dozen words. Males can easily learn from a few dozen to a hundred. One male budgerigar called Puck, who lived with an owner in America, holds the world record for the largest vocabulary of any bird: 1,728 words. Puck died in 1994, and his record first appeared in Guinness World Records in 1995. The budgerigar's genus name, Melopsittacus, comes from Ancient Greek and means "melodious parrot".
SourceStrigops habroptilus
The kākāpō of New Zealand is a large, green parrot with an owl-like face. It is nocturnal and cannot fly. It is the heaviest parrot species, with males weighing up to 4 kg, and possibly the longest-lived bird species, living 60 to 90 years.
SourceNestor notabilis
Kea are clever parrots that live only in New Zealand. They are one of the smartest birds in the world, famous for solving problems, and very curious. They live in mountain areas and forests across the South Island, and some live near sea level.
SourcePsittacus erithacus
The grey parrot is native to equatorial Africa, and its tail feathers are red. Two wild grey parrots recorded while roosting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reportedly had over 200 different calls, including copies of nine other wild birds' songs and one of a bat.
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