When you’re looking for a small bird as a pet, parakeets or budgies are generally recommended. The truth is that a budgie is a parakeet! It can be quite confusing, but only in the U.S. is a ...

The number of red-breasted parakeets in Singapore has been increasing steadily, and their roosting spots in Choa Chu Kang and Clementi are well-known to bird watchers.

When you think about adopting a bird, budgies and cockatiels are often the first species that spring to mind – but did you ...

Was it his sparkling personality or his neon-green shirt? Or maybe he was mistaken for a pirate. All Raymond Hedrick knows is he was playing tennis with his regular group of tennis friends over the ...

The number of rose-ringed parakeets in Brussels has swelled from just a few in the 1970s to some 10,000 today, becoming one of the most common birds in Brussels, after pigeons and sparrows.

Like most birds, budgies mate for life, and females lay around eight eggs in a clutch, which takes 18 days to hatch. The male will supply food to the nest until the baby budgies leave at 35 days old.

Parakeets aren’t huge birds, so the length is more important than the height. Generally speaking, their cage should be 14 inches long, 17 inches wide, and 16 inches high. All birds need at least ...

Quaker parakeets, being highly social birds, build colonies of such nests next to each other in their natural habitats, ... The mating season is usually between August and November.

The rapid growth of the parakeet population may pose a threat to other birds, authorities have said. There are about 30,000 of the bright green rose-ringed parakeets in London, with more in Surrey and ...

Monk parakeets live in complex social groups like humans do, said Erica L. Westerman, Ph.D., an associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Arkansas, who also wasn’t involved ...