When you’re looking for a small bird as a pet, parakeets or budgies are generally recommended. The truth is that a budgie is a parakeet! It can be quite confusing, but only in the U.S. is a budgie ...

The bright green parrots start with low-cost social behaviors—like sitting near each other without touching—when first ...

Parakeets form new friendships by slowly testing how close they can safely get to unfamiliar birds. This careful process ...

New research shows that parakeets slowly build trust with strangers and manage the risks of forming new social bonds.

Birds are some of the best dancers. Birds were all Broadway dancers in a past life, I swear: they have moves for days. Even the smallest of birds have some of the best senses of rhythm in the whole ...

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