In the wild, most common parakeets have a yellow forehead and throat, yellow and black stripes on the head, and purple and black markings on the cheeks. The feathers on their wings are often black ...

Budgerigars have naturally occurring yellow fluorescent plumage on their crowns and cheeks for courtship displays ... and watched what happened. The budgies that had been dulled were ignored ...

You may know them by another name: the parakeet ... The native Australian budgerigar's bright green and yellow feathers are marked with blue on the cheeks, beak, and tail, and black scallops ...

Anika and Eliza went off to our local pet store Jollyes with a plan to buy a budgie / parakeet. Though with the wide selection of pets on offer there was a tug of war underway, Hamsters ...