Residents at a Carterton care home have shared how the home's pet budgies "spread and bring cheer" every day. Brize Meadow Lodge introduced the birds in 2023, when a resident named Peggy moved in ...

The zoo adopted 172 budgie birds, 2 eclectus parrots, a Catalina macaw, a military macaw, a golden conure, a capybara and a reticulated python.