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Budgies
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Budgies (lat. Melopsittacus undulatus) is so popular that it seems as if any of us once in your life was the proud owner of this wonderful pet that is a long time ago, since the 1800s, has strongly taken place in the homes and hearts of people around world.
Despite its small size, budgies have a sharp mind and a strong personality. They are easily trained and are able to talk or play music no worse than their larger cousins.
In the circles of birdwatchers are cases where parrots memorizing hundreds of words and phrases. So, vocabulary wavy parrot, who lived in California in the 1990s, consisted of 1728 words, and the repertoire of another bird, nicknamed Sparky Williams poems included 8 360 550 phrases and words. This little budgie became a star, and 20 million copies of his records have been sold prior to his death in 1962.
Budgies - active and cheerful birds that need constant movement to keep themselves in good physical shape. Pets living in small cells, is required for a couple of hours a day to let in a safe place so they can stretch their wings and fly a little.
Homeland budgies more than five million years, are dry and arid regions of the Australian continent. Wild parrots are very small in comparison with pets - their length is about 18 centimeters, while the dimensions of their domesticated cousins reach 22-24 cm.
From the family home of Australian parrots different large size of the head and more than a hundred different colors. The color scheme of the wild budgerigars limited to shades of blue, green and yellow, with black drawings on the head, back and wings.
In the wild, parrots nest in tree holes and hollow tree trunks. They prefer eucalyptus trees growing near the parched rivers, filling small voids. Jaws female budgie is much stronger than the male, so it is much more painful bite.
As gulls and cormorants, budgies - colonial birds. Often you can see two or three pairs of budgerigars bringing up offspring in eucalyptus tree. Nesting groups - an effective way to protect against predators. A lot of little eyes looking at the same time in different directions, so that in case of danger immediately to warn his comrades.
Early in the morning budgies gather in large flocks (from several hundred to thousands of birds) to drink dew or take a bath, basking in the thick wet grass. To get enough, they have to travel long distances, often more than 50 kilometers.
Budgies - wandering birds, because of too hot and dry climate, they constantly migrate in search of seeds and fresh green tufts of grass, knocked out of the ground after a brief rain. Flying flock is hard to miss - too much noise it creates. Their rapid flight seems chaotic at first, but all the movements are amazingly accurate and every bird exactly should be given direction.
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9 photo
Budgies (lat. Melopsittacus undulatus) is so popular that it seems as if any of us once in your life was the proud owner of this wonderful pet that is a long time ago, since the 1800s, has strongly taken place in the homes and hearts of people around world.
Despite its small size, budgies have a sharp mind and a strong personality. They are easily trained and are able to talk or play music no worse than their larger cousins.
In the circles of birdwatchers are cases where parrots memorizing hundreds of words and phrases. So, vocabulary wavy parrot, who lived in California in the 1990s, consisted of 1728 words, and the repertoire of another bird, nicknamed Sparky Williams poems included 8 360 550 phrases and words. This little budgie became a star, and 20 million copies of his records have been sold prior to his death in 1962.
Budgies - active and cheerful birds that need constant movement to keep themselves in good physical shape. Pets living in small cells, is required for a couple of hours a day to let in a safe place so they can stretch their wings and fly a little.
Homeland budgies more than five million years, are dry and arid regions of the Australian continent. Wild parrots are very small in comparison with pets - their length is about 18 centimeters, while the dimensions of their domesticated cousins reach 22-24 cm.
From the family home of Australian parrots different large size of the head and more than a hundred different colors. The color scheme of the wild budgerigars limited to shades of blue, green and yellow, with black drawings on the head, back and wings.
In the wild, parrots nest in tree holes and hollow tree trunks. They prefer eucalyptus trees growing near the parched rivers, filling small voids. Jaws female budgie is much stronger than the male, so it is much more painful bite.
As gulls and cormorants, budgies - colonial birds. Often you can see two or three pairs of budgerigars bringing up offspring in eucalyptus tree. Nesting groups - an effective way to protect against predators. A lot of little eyes looking at the same time in different directions, so that in case of danger immediately to warn his comrades.
Early in the morning budgies gather in large flocks (from several hundred to thousands of birds) to drink dew or take a bath, basking in the thick wet grass. To get enough, they have to travel long distances, often more than 50 kilometers.
Budgies - wandering birds, because of too hot and dry climate, they constantly migrate in search of seeds and fresh green tufts of grass, knocked out of the ground after a brief rain. Flying flock is hard to miss - too much noise it creates. Their rapid flight seems chaotic at first, but all the movements are amazingly accurate and every bird exactly should be given direction.
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