The appearance of the first yellow and blue budgies in aviaries in Belgium in the 1870s sparked a craze for colour. By the 1920s birds of a rare-hued feather were attracting princely sums. Japanese ...

Budgerigar characteristics. The native Australian budgerigar's bright green and yellow feathers are marked with blue on the cheeks, ... Their cages should be regularly cleaned.

The new budgerigars have been making themselves at home in the school's aviary Pupils left heartbroken when thieves broke in and stole their budgies have welcomed a new flock to their school ...

Staff and pupils nursed the bird back to health and built an aviary for it to live in. Other budgies owned by a woman living nearby were rehomed at the school, and they began to breed, growing to ...

Primary school pupils were left devastated after thieves broke into their aviary and stole their budgerigars. Year six pupils at Brentry Primary in Bristol came into school on Thursday morning to ...

The national budgerigar championships begin in Cairns on Saturday, with more than 600 budgies from across Australia battling to be crowned the finest of their kind.