THEY call themselves a progressive society, and progress they've made. Fifty years ago this weekend, the Ipswich and District Budgerigar Society held its first meeting. It was the second such group ...
Birds like to fly at just two speeds, scientists have found. The fact has only just come to light despite centuries of humans marvelling at the flight of birds. The discovery was made by researchers ...
Who would have thought the budgerigar, Australia’s most petite parrot and a denizen of our arid and semi-arid inland, would become the most popular pet bird in the world? The budgerigar’s world ...
From Bird: Exploring the Winged World, which was published in November 2021 by Phaidon Press. The photograph originally appeared in The Budgerigar in 2014. Wild budgerigars are green. This is because ...
It might have been luck or sheer skill as footage emerged of a motorcyclist catching a bird which had just escaped in St Paul's Bay. The footage uploaded on YouTube yesterday showed the yellow ...
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