My Pet Budgie
Hello! My name is Sofia. I’ve got a pet budgie. Her name is Shura. She is very beautiful. Shura is sky-blue and she’s got yellowish feathers on the front near her beak. She can’t talk but I teach her to say her name. Shura likes sitting on my finger and especially on my shoulder.
I always clean up after my budgie.
Shura likes to peck me. She loves my dad more, but I’m not offended by that. I love me budgie.
Would you like to have a pet budgie? Here are some positives and negatives.
Pros and Cons of Having a Pet Budgie
Budgies (parakeets) are the most popular pet birds in the world. There are many reasons why budgies are adored so much. Budgies make good pets because they are:
- beautiful
- intelligent
- sociable
- entertaining
- curious
- playful
- adorable
- easy to care for
- don’t need much space
What is more, budgies learn tricks and can be taught to talk.
But there are some negatives:
- Budgies are messy eaters.
- They are noisy.
- They are physically vulnerable.
- Budgies poop a lot.
- They need companionship and some out-of-cage time.
I have found some interesting facts about budgie birds. They are absolutely incredible!
- Budgies are a type of parakeet.
- They are 18-20cm from top to tail, and weigh 30-40g.
- Budgies can be of different colors: sky blue, light green, dark green, olive, grey, grey-green, yellow, violet, white, pale purple.
- Budgies have a third eyelid that is not usually visible, but that is important for lubricating the eyes and keeping them clear of dirt.
- Budgies are called differently in different parts of the world, including the budgerigars, canary parrot, shell parrot, zebra parrot, and parakeet.
- Budgies make between 65-85 breaths per minute.
- The heart rate of the budgie is also extremely fast and it beats over 300 times per minute!
- The original budgies were greeny-yellow in colour, and from this, other colours developed. The first blue budgie wasn’t seen until 1878.
- Budgies have monocular vision: they see out of each eye independently of the other one.
- A budgie can have up to 3,000 feathers.
- Budgies grind their beaks when they are happy and relaxed.
- The bones of budgies are hollow.
- Budgies can swivel their heads up to 180 degrees.
- Budgies can only afford to lose between 10-12 drops of blood before their blood loss becomes fatal.
- Budgies do not urinate. They poop every twenty minutes.
- Budgies have excellent hearing, they can remember the sounds and sometimes mimic them.
- Budgies have an incredibly acute vision in terms of the number of images their brains can process at a time; budgies can register over 150 images per second, compared with just 16 for humans.
- Budgies can see the ultraviolet spectrum that humans are not capable of doing.
- Budgies are among the most vocal of all pet bird species.
- There are two distinct species of budgies, which are the Australian budgie and the English budgie.
- Budgies can be taught to count up to three.
- Budgies cannot see very well in the dark and total darkness can stress these birds.
Source:
https://www.pets4homes.co.uk/pet-advice/twenty-five-fun-and-interesting-facts-about-budgies.html
Hello Sofia! Your budgie is really very beautiful. I also have got two budgies and a cockatiel, they are very loud and very beautiful! I also have hamsters, a rat, a dog, a cat and fish at home. It is great fun to play with them, and talk to them. Animals are our little friends. I love my pets very much!!!
My budgie’s name is Rocky. He is 6 months old. He is blue. He likes playing with me. Rocky wants to be friends with my cat, but my cat doesn’t understand it. I didn’t know the facts about budgie’s heart and about his eyes. Amazing!
Hello Sophia. Thank you for the post. It’s a very interesting post about budgies and I know amlot of interesting information about these small pets. It’s very strange that they are only 30 grams. They are so small. I haven’t got a pet but I had a small fish. There are many different colors of this beautiful parrots. I liked olive the most.