You may bring home a precious little budgie, but she thinks she is a magnificent eagle with a grand destiny to fulfill. Try to keep up.

Caring for your budgerigar parakeet.

Before we get into the how’s of parakeets. We need to cover what a parakeet is, and is not, and that parakeets and budgies are the same taxonomy. In the US these parrots are most commonly referred to as parakeets. The rest of the world calls them budgerigars or budgies. If you are into splitting hairs or feathers, it’s best to refer to these small gems of the parrot world as budgies. Parakeet is a common term that includes…