When you’re looking for a small bird as a pet, parakeets or budgies are generally recommended. The truth is that a budgie is ...

Despite their small brains, many birds develop sophisticated social structures with diverse systems of communication. Vocalization serves an important part in both communicating and learning a new ...

Types of Pet Birds. Parakeets. Well-known for being good ... Just be sure to spend a few hours a day with your budgie. From tip to tail, parakeets grow to between 6 and 8 inches and weigh about 1 ...

To understand how these birds accurately imitate people and produce so many distinct sounds, the study authors surgically implanted tiny probes into four parakeets’ brains in a particular region ...

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.

ASTON — About seven years ago, Francis and Clare, a pair of budgie parakeets, were gifted to the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia for their retirement home, Assisi House in Aston, by a ...

Budgerigars are some of the chattiest birds, and that is reflected in their brains. Budgie brains contain a map of vocal sounds, which is similar to that found in the human brain and has not been ...

Although warm weather often causes more of the tiny tropical birds, also known as parakeets, to fly the coop, more of them are being turned in earlier in the year, according to rescuers.

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.

These birds are red-breasted parakeets, or moustached parakeets, a species introduced to Singapore in 1940s as pets, according to the National Parks Board (NParks).