Get up close and personal with Australian budgies at Franklin Park Zoo

A pair of budgies make short work of a stick full of seeds held out by a visitor to the Franklin Park Zoo on Wednesday. The yellow and green parakeet swooped down from its perch to land on the seed-coated stick. A second later, half a dozen more followed, bending the wooden stick with their weight and nibbling just inches away from the fingers of curator Fred Beall.

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Budgerigars in the outback

A flock of budgerigars swarm across the fields at Boulia in far west Queensland on October 15, 2009. Photo: Ann Britton

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Don’t release the tiny exotic budgie, your compassion can kill it

BudgerigarNew Delhi Wildlife SOS ‘rescues’ budgerigars released by Delhiites, says these Australian birds can’t survive here and become crow feed.

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Bugs to listen in on wildlife's most wanted

Ground parrot by Jacobi Parkinson,1792-1796.

FINDING a rare critter in the Australian bush can be a tricky business.

Very few people, bird watchers included, have ever seen the eastern ground parrot. Shy and elusive, the ground-dwelling birds are found in dense thickets of bush along the eastern seaboard, making their tunnels and nests in the undergrowth.

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Bird Brains Suggest How Vocal Learning Evolved

Budgies that live wild in Florida. Photo: Cityparrots.orgThough they perch far apart on the avian family tree, birds with the ability to learn songs use similar brain structures to sing their tunes. Neurobiologists at Duke University Medical Center now have an explanation for this puzzling likeness.

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