First, they showed a female budgie two different male budgies, and looked at who she spent more time with as a way to tell who she liked better. Then they took her less-preferred male and trained ...

To test budgies’ mating preferences, a team of researchers led by Jiani Chen of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Zoology, put 34 male and 17 female birds to the test.

Q–Is it true that only male parakeets talk? I have a female, a rare parakeet, that`s about 10 months old.A–You`re in luck! Female parakeets have the same ability for learning how to talk as males.

A zoologist from the University of Otago in New Zealand spotted a rare bird with distinct half-male and half-female plumage.Hamish Spencer and amateur ornithologist John Murillo took photos and ...

Virtually every budgie being sold in the pet shops are less than 3 months old, which means the usual brown nose / purple nose test for whether a budgie is male or female is not going to work ...

After performing the task, the male would be given a score and the male’s score could range from zero to 16. Once the males received their score, the females joined the males to begin the mating ...

After performing the task, the male would be given a score and the male’s score could range from zero to 16. Once the males received their score, the females joined the males to begin the mating ...

A PARAKEET bird which took up residence in Ryanair’s head offices has puzzled airline workers. Ryanair staff have turned into amateur detectives as they try to find the home of the budgie-loo… ...

The parakeet is one of the the world’s most successful invasive species . Though they are not native to the UK, ring-necked parakeets are now so numerous here that they qualify as a common ...