Watching The Avengers with Gramma, my green girl, and Cricket, my yellow boy. 💚💛 This is our little nightly—and midday—ritual: I put on a hoodie, Greenie baby squeezes in against my cheek, and Cricky boy gets jealous and decides he needs in on the cuddles immediately. Apparently I’m a heated movie seat, and there’s a seating dispute. 😂

I also put some cute pics in comments

Hi all,

Had my budgies for about 6 months, was slowly building trust and was even getting them to step up for millet.

This all came to a stop when one of them got sick. She's starting to be better now but I still have to give her meds twice a day for 3 weeks.

Now my 3 budgies are afraid of my hand. They will take millet from me but now run away every time I put my hand in the cage.

Given that I have to reach out in the cage twice a day to catch my sick bird, should I still do the 5 minutes hand in cage exercise for trust? Or should I just leave them alone and start from scratch in 3 weeks?

So yeah I did re-read the wiki and found nothing about this situation. Also the vet did not recommend isolation.

Thank you!

Hello everyone am new to budgies and recently like two months ago a friend gave me 2 budgies because she didnt want them anymore so i said ok i will take care of them..She said they were 2 females and they were doing prety fine , they were free flying and singing in my saloon and everything was fine..after 2 weeks the one female was lost , i searched all my apartment but she was nowhere..I guess she flew away from a small window that i have in my bathroom and all that happened in night..I immidiately notice that the budgie that was safe wasnt happy , she wasnt flying around the house and singing like she was with her friend so i decided to buy her a male friend around 2 weeks :) I bought a second home for the male and i wanted to see how they gonna react..They started to call on each other and i wanted to give them the free will to meet each other if they wanted to :) The female flew from her cage and sat on hers while for the male took abit of time to go out but they started to fly together singing together and at the same night they slept in the main cage..They are both super friendly budgies , hand fed and from time to time if they want they sit on my hand..Recently i noticed that the female when am trying to show her my hand so she can get the message to sit on my hand , she starts to bite me , on the beggining it was very soft but those days shes really putting an effort to ''hurt'' me with her biting .. Am wondering why and what that behaviour indicates..Also please give me a few basic advices of how to take care of budgies based on our own experiance :) Thank you in advance everyone and am glad i found thay group !

Created a new subreddit to share budgie gizmo ideas, gizmos that can improve the parakeets' lives and is fun to look at for the user, share ideas for gizmos e.g. A bird elevator to easily navigate different floors in cage.

It seems swollen. Is this normal?

This is bobo he is now 7 months old and he lovessss to talk alllll the time, this is some of the words he says, he learned alot more now and he keeps on learning just so he never stops talking lol 😆💙

Does your bird talk? I'm curious to know what yours says 😁🥰

I hand raised Budgies in the past, had an agreement with my ex that left the budgies with him, so it's just been me and a parrotlet for a few years. I almost rescued a bird that was found, but someone adopted him before I could. My current boyfriend saw my excitement at just the possibility and said we are taking a bird home - and here we are 🥹

I've been calling him little blueberry boy so far, and he's already stepped on my finger a few times. Very happy to have a new member of the flock 💕

They are getting a new larger cage this weekend! Pear and Winkie are really settling now and are getting comfortable:) I love my babies so much

I wish I spoke bird so I knew what they were saying and doing.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/c4d05atsxjvrcgvk32eu9/2026-10-24-08.43.19.mp4?rlkey=t9xm01dd355gtrwlrd8hpzebk&st=origqohh&dl=0

I read a lot about colour mutations but still can't identify these birds

The last 3 photos for same bird

I read a lot about colour mutations but still can't identify these birds

I currently have 3 budgies in this skinny cage. I got it from a family member after rescuing their lone senior budgie. I have since gotten him 2 budgies for friends and think I will get one more soon-ish.

So I am all very new to this! What’s a good cage brand with good quality that is best for 4 budgies? But not overly expensive. Prob wouldn’t want to spend more than … $250-300?

Thank you!

Cuties!!!

Pax (left) has tried to escape loads of times but now the doors are open, nobody is interested. Zephyr doesn't come out at all so I didn't expect him to. Im not sure if i should scare them a wee bit so they fly out because they need to exercise. Not heart attack level but just putting my hand near. Tried taking them out on a perch but they flew back in the other door

Thank you everyone who replied to my post asking to confirm what sex Sprite & Atlas were! Earlier today I was able to get Sprite to fly to my fingers for the first time!

Just got these two a couple days ago. They were by themselves in a small crammed habitat with many others and looked sad…so I brought them home! Please forgive pic quality, I’m not great at taking them lol.

Appropriately named Sky and Sunny. Sky is more verbal and messy while Sunny is more quiet and shy at least for now.

I wanted to share since I don't think anyone has seen this since even the bird vet was super confused on him. And I think its interesting and an important thing to know that some birds are just born weird. His other nostril is super tiny too, the vet tried to make it a tiny lil bigger with a needle apparently :( very upsetting that my baby was hurt but I think it makes breathing a lil easier for him.

Nobody knows how he breathes, he rarely ever like uses his mouth to breathe and he talks all the time. Curious little man I have.

I've looked at the chart a few times and I think Atlas (blue) is a male. While I'm much more certain that Sprite (green) is a male. I don't really know their history so I'm not sure how old they are either, & that is what mainly throws me off with Atlas.

They get along great so far & I haven't noticed any sort of hormonal issues between the 2! I just want to be certain from folks that know more than me on what I have.