Sentences with word «budgerigar»

Mandyam Srinivasan at the University of Queensland, Australia, and his colleagues uncovered the simple trick when filming pairs of budgerigars flying towards each other in a narrow tunnel.

Budgies, also known as Budgerigars birds, eat fruits, vegetation, seeds and berries in the wild as well as in captivity as pet birds.

Below it hangs a painting of a birdcage that might almost be a house, by Gwen John, and an anonymous photo of someone's dead pet budgerigar lying in state.

They compared the resulting gene expression patterns in all the parrot brains with neural tracing experiments in budgerigars.

Mandyam Srinivasan at the University of Queensland, Australia, and his colleagues uncovered the simple trick when filming pairs of budgerigars flying towards each other in a narrow tunnel (see video, below).

Everything: Live in a commune, create a magazine, buy a nightclub, breed budgerigars, build a recording studio, start a business, crash that business, build a train company, launch a space - tourism company, start a racing team, create a cosmetics line, travel around the world in a hot air balloon and live on a private island.

Half the group were given begonias to care for, and half were given budgerigars (a variety of parakeet).

Winston Churchill's pet budgerigar Toby, kept him company in his fi nal days, often accompanying him to dinner.

Blue budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus, second from the left) may be common in pet stores today, but when they first appeared in Europe in the second half of the 19th century, they were a rarity: In the wild, these small parrots usually have a green chest and a yellow head like the two birds on the right.

Watch a group of young budgerigars playing together and it becomes obvious which ones have loud and active personalities, which are a bit quieter and which are just plain devilish.

Any store that sells birds must keep the bread - and - butter species like budgerigars (parakeets) and cockatiels, especially when one considers that these two species make up over 70 percent of the pet bird population in the U.S..

There are many budgerigars needing homes, so think of adopting one from an adoption and education foundation or parrot rescue.

I assume by parakeet you mean budgerigar, or budgie.

A full - grown budgerigar weighs between 1.1 and 1.4 ounces.

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If the bird is a bit aggressive — even budgerigars can draw blood — use a wooden dowel of the right diameter instead of a finger or hand.

An angry or fearful budgerigar can draw blood just as easily as an Amazon parrot.

The rest of the pet birds in the United States are parrots, with budgerigars (parakeets) and cockatiels making up the largest percentage at 67 percent.

It means that the bird department should cater to cockatiel and budgerigar owners.

It matters not who is putting it about and exposing the other to the risk of STDs — nothing to do with subscriber trunk dialling or Buzby, unless you are some kind of budgerigar fetishist.

Stunning bronze coloured lamp base with two budgerigars perched on a branch.

This is not the case with pet birds, except those that have been bred in captivity for hundreds of years, such as budgerigars and canaries.

The common pet budgerigar is loved for its ability to mimic its owners.

This is also true of budgerigars, also known as parakeets, and cockatiels as well.

For example, parrots can range anywhere in price from $ 10 zebra finches and budgerigars to rare species priced at $ 10,000 or more.

Not likely, if you can't dream about winning everything in football sight then buy yourself some knitting needles and a budgerigar for company.

The budgerigars also tended to fly past each other at different heights, which prevented mid-air collisions on the rare occasions that one of the birds veered left.

What do shingleback lizards, budgerigars and Mexican grey wolves all have in common?

They characterized the brains of eight parrot species besides the budgerigar, including conures, cockatiels, lovebirds, two species of Amazon parrots, a blue and gold macaw, a kea and an African Grey parrot.

Until now, the budgerigar (common pet parakeet) was the only species of parrot whose brain had been probed for the mechanisms of vocal learning.

Rhythmic behavior has recently been observed in other animals, including parrots, budgerigars, sea lions, rhesus monkeys, and chimpanzees, although in the majority of these cases animals were explicitly trained to synchronize.

The research, which formed part of a vast study carried out over the past four years by the international Avian Phylogenomics Consortium, involved the analysis of the whole genome structure of the chicken, turkey, Pekin duck, zebra finch and budgerigar.

The researchers also found that the fastest rate of change had occurred in the zebra finch and budgerigar, consistent with more rapid speciation events in songbirds and their relatives.

«There are lots of studies showing detection of sound in noise is easier if it's «your» sound; in the budgerigar's case, that would be a contact call,» says Dent.

The studies tested both humans and budgerigars (common parakeets).

Cockatoos tended to be the brightest and budgerigars the dimmest, but within species there was variability according to the degree of laterality.

Usually with smaller parrots like parakeets (budgerigars) and cockatiels, the spacing is the more important factor, as a bird can be seriously injured or even killed if it is able put its head through the bars of the cage.

Canaries and zebra finches are the most popular non-tame birds, while parakeets (budgerigars) and cockatiels are the top two parrot species kept in the U.S., according to the 2009 - 2010 APPA National Pet Owners Survey.

Birds such as finches, budgerigars (parakeets) and cockatiels, which eat a lot of seeds in the wild, can be fed a fresh seed mix as part of their main diet, but they also need pellets and fresh foods.

Although parakeets (budgerigars) and cockatiels make up the largest portion of parrot species sold in the United States today, larger birds such as African greys and macaws can make incredible pets for the right owners.

A small bird like a zebra finch can live six to eight years, while a budgerigar will live from eight to 12 years, on average.

Remember that even classic toys that have been on the market for a long time can be new to customers, and some items should always be kept in stock, such as mirror toys for smaller parrot species like parakeets (budgerigars) and cockatiels.

The two most popular small parrot species, cockatiels and budgerigars (parakeets), are originally from the Australian outback, where seeds make up a larger part of their diet.

Whether you are adopting a budgerigar, lovebirds, a canary, a cockatiel or a parrot, you will want a name that will be easy to remember for your pet.

These types of birds include most parrots, macaws, budgerigars, and cockatiels.

Yes, we have already done that for cockatiels, budgerigars, finches, ferrets dogs and cats and other domestic animals.

Budgerigars or Budgies for short, are one of the most popular pet birds in North America, and it isn't hard to see why.

It comes as a surprise to many, but the tiny Budgies (also known as Budgerigars or simply as Parakeets) can actually talk as well if not better than some larger parrot species.