Scientific name:
Platycercini

Natural spread:
Australia

budgerigars in its many, through long Züchtung the most frequently is they created color-hits in captivity of held parrots surely.

Way of life of the trunk-form The 17-20 cm long budgerigars live in the dry brushland-ships and the regions passed with light Baumbewuchs in the Innern Australia. Occasionally, these frequent and widespread birds move also in offshore areas. On Tasmania, budgerigars don't occur. How also other flat-tail-parakeets, budgerigars wander nomadisierend and often meet to large troops of many hundred. The flight of budgerigars is straight and fast; birds flying in the swarm-association execute synchronous turns and swings so that also big flights always remain densely unlocked in formation. Budgerigars look for its food (grass-seeds and other Sämereien) on the ground, while it itself to brooding, rests and also with danger on trees withdraws. During the food-search, the birds give constantly chattering, hissing lutes of itself.

As also most other parrot-types, budgerigars brood in tree-caves. Particularly after bigger precipitations (from October), if all plants begin fast in the dry-areas to grow and exists enough food soon, budgerigars begin with the brood-business. The nest from 4-6 (-8) eggs is incubated by the female for 19 days approximately alone until the bare squabs with still closed eyes hatch. The eyes open only after approximately 1 weeks, while the plumage in the 2. Life-week, to sprout, begins. After 4 weeks, young budgerigars leave the brood-cave and fly with the alto-birds around, of whom they are fed another while. Budgerigars pull open 2 or also 3 yearly-broods below favorable weather-circumstances consecutively. In prolonged drought against it, they don't brood at all.

Budgerigars as pets In the year 1840 first reached budgerigar living to Europe (Great Britain), where they were however also bred with success soon. Because of the severe popularity of these active parrots, commercial Züchtereien, in which the first Farbmutanten appeared already in the 1870er years and turned into the reason-stick of the numerous Züchtungsformen of yellow, blue, white, dark-green and gray budgerigars, were created everywhere as they exist today. Also from the game-form deviant drawing-patterns and feather-bonnets became erzüchtet from enthusiastic bird-holders. One introduced still wild-colored Australian budgerigars additional to the birds after-bred in Europe long period in large number.

Game-color The wildfowl has a light-green plumage, that on the upper side undulating, name!) yellow and black cross-striped is. The wing-feathers carry white edges, the head is befiedert until on some few feathers with blue ends at the neck-sides ("cheeks") as well as a series of round black stains (over the Kehlregion) yellow. The wing-undersides are green, the tail carries blue and blue-green feathers. With the male, the wax-skin is light-blue while female budgerigars have a brownish tail-root, that from-colors itself clearly differently particularly in the incubation.

Caught-attitude To the attitude of budgerigars, the same is applicable as for many other parrots. Although is shaped by small very strongly on isolated and hand-come up birds on people and constantly its entire behavioral-repertoire at lifelong "solitary confinement" in small cages must let waste away and therefore particularly on little mirrors, little ball and such as well as on "Sprechunterricht" with strong activity responds, it is very much better and filling for these sociable birds to hold it at least in pairs in somewhat bigger cages. Especially well, budgerigars feel in free-aviaries, in which they rear with suitable Nistkästen (14 x 14 cm of base and 25 cm of height) and qualitatively suitable feeding boy without further.