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 ...

Amazing color variations that breeders have carefully nurtured will be displayed Saturday during the Budgerigar Association of America's Grand National Show. About 80 exhibitors from around the ...

A team of scientists developed a methodology to map out molecular processes and used that to identify the mysterious yellow pigment gene that parrots use to create their iconic green plumage Many ...

Human speech arises courtesy of some significant neural horsepower. Different areas of the brain are involved in determining the meaning that’s desired, finding the words to express it, and then ...

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 ...

Geoff Capes appeared at three Olympics for Great Britain and still holds the British record for the shot-put. Capes was two-time winner of the World's Strongest Man competition. The 197cm, 170kg ...

On September 24, 2025, in Guizhou, China, @JingYatou'sLiuXiaohu shared a funny video of their Budgerigar interacting with a phone. In the video, the bird is seen watching a show on the mobile device.

You have full access to this article via your institution. Although, many publications describe diseases in budgerigars, they are not generally available in the laboratory animal literature. The ...