Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 12:23 Budgerigars have the ability to peck in time with a rhythm, a team of Japanese researchers has found -- a finding researchers say sheds light on the language-learning process.
Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 14:20 
Trekki the parakeet, of Latham, sports a collar to keep her from pecking at her stitches. She survived surgery in September 2011 to remove a tumor and repair a hernia. Image by Linda Marino"Trekki" is on the mend.
After undergoing surgery last week to remove a tumor and fix a hernia, the tiny parakeet is healing at home with her owner, Julie Marino of Latham.
Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 13:14 
Staff photo by Melissa Sue Gerrits: A parakeet temporarily takes up residence in a bluebird box in Katherine Lewis' backyard.
Kathy Lewis first noticed the flash of green in her bird feeder in mid-June.
She looked more closely and was surprised to see a parakeet busily feeding there side-by-side with cardinals, sparrows and other wild birds.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 12:00 
Budgerigars
Police were today hunting a jealous rival who broke into the home of one of Britain’s top budgerigar breeders and stole 21 birds – and then STAMPED on the champion budgie.
Saturday, September 4, 2010 at 11:23 
Ralph the budgie at a bird feeder in Toronto's High Park neighbourhood. Photo: Kenneth Kidd/Toronto Star
It took scarcely any time for Ralph to become the existentialist of the garden, the one prompting all sorts of gauzy questions about the nature and meaning of life.
Why had he come, for starters, and what had been his circumstances?
There was the attraction of food, of course. Even a budgerigar on the lam needs to eat from time to time. But the rest is a mystery, at least in its precise details.
Does Ralph, as we've dubbed him, know that he's an escaped prisoner? Does he realize how perilous this course might become? Does he know about cats?
