Okay guys im here because i was browzing the web and i found an re and green budgie. So i was wondering if ant one can go check it out

 

http://www.parakeetcare.org/about-parakeets.php

 

 

P.S It is a budgie too

Do you mean the second picture? That is a budgie in love with a pink mineral block

I have looked at the website they don't talk about any birds with red or pink faces so I am guessing that the bird has eaten something red or pink...

(laugh out loud) i thought so because i heard rumers about food colouring in the water changes the white and why does this happen

Edited December 27, 200816 yr by KAZ

I hate it how they call them parakeets.

well they are a parakeet... just not the only parakeet... they could be a little more specific...

The Parakeet (Melopsittacus undulatus, nicknamed budgie)

 

Not nicknamed budgie...is budgie

 

Nickname is parakeet

Yea. Budgie is short for budgerigar.

 

No, parakeet is not nickname, it is lazy name! It just annoys me, because calling the budgie species parakeet is like calling the cockatoo species a parrot.

 

It really goads me when I see pet care books entitled "Caring for your parakeet" and it has a picture of a budgie on the front and DOES NOT mention all the other hundreds of parakeet species and assumes that parakeet only means budgie. It is just like having a book called "Caring for your Parrot" and having a sulphur crested cockatoo on the cover and no mention of any other species. As if the name 'parrot' is good enough for a cocky and no other species of parrot could possibly be confused with it when you talk about it.

 

Sorry, it really ruffles my feathers.

Ditto SW!

Me to Sailorwolf!! Almost as much as American and English Budgies Just kidding, Parakeet annoys me much more. :laughter:

I am with you SW and all the others who agree - parakeet or even just "Keet" for those who are REALLY lazy, really bugs me too!

Anyway, the "red" face is from a mineral block - they also come in green, yellow, orange, pink, purple and blue - they are great fun on tricking the untrained eye

I am with you SW and all the others who agree - parakeet or even just "Keet" for those who are REALLY lazy, really bugs me too!

Anyway, the "red" face is from a mineral block - they also come in green, yellow, orange, pink, purple and blue - they are great fun on tricking the untrained eye

A lot of americans call budgie keets...........common usage doesnt make it correct

Edited December 30, 200816 yr by KAZ

Annoys me too

I call most of my birds 'chook' when we are having a smooch but it doesn't make them chickens

 

Names like Parakeet are often used for the most common member of a genus or group of similiar animals. Cockatoo is not infact a single species but a collection of many species of cockatoos so you have infact commited your own mortal sin there SW Cockatoo is commonly used to refer to the sulphur crested cocky but doesn't actually guarantee that you are talking about that species. Lorikeet generally refers to the Rainbow Lorikeet, etc

Aaah. But reread my post. I wrote sulphur crested cockatoo.

 

In the first sentence I wrote "the cockatoo species", admittedly I should have replaced the "the" with an "a". However technically it is correct as I did not specify a cockatoo species at the time. :rofl:

My first sentence was a statement and the following paragraph was an explanation. So technically I am not at fault. Don't you just love semantics.

 

(me escaping through my own loop hole)

 

Also the parakeet misnomer is so much larger than a cockatoo one (as that is a genus, I think)

 

But yes, I almost shot myself in the foot.

Edited December 30, 200816 yr by Sailorwolf

I am with you SW and all the others who agree - parakeet or even just "Keet" for those who are REALLY lazy, really bugs me too!

Anyway, the "red" face is from a mineral block - they also come in green, yellow, orange, pink, purple and blue - they are great fun on tricking the untrained eye

A lot of americans call budgie keets...........common usage doesnt make it correct

 

 

I'm not american but I live here and I always thought they were called parakeets

..since that the way they label them on petshops,websites etc.. but then I got so confused when on some websites they called them budgies and I thought that budgies were some other kind of parakeet.. and I never knew the true meaning of parakeet!

 

Until I found this site Now I call my birds budgies all the time but I have to explain to people what a budgie is.. so I end up calling them parakeets again when I don't want to explain the whole thing It is so annoying! I didn't even know Budgies came from Australia either! But now I'm well informed thanks to this site

Edited March 23, 200916 yr by Cory

A parakeet is a term for any one of a large number of unrelated small to medium sized parrot species, that generally have long tail feathers.

 

The Budgerigar or budgie comes from Australia. They are common and popular pets throughout the world. In the U.S. the term "parakeet" is commonly used to refer specifically to this bird. This is imprecise because there are many different species of parakeets.

 

The term Grass Parakeet or Grasskeet refers to a large number of small Australian parakeets native to grasslands such as Neophema and Princess Parrot. The Australian Rosellas are also parakeets.

 

The term Ringneck Parakeet refers to a number of African and Asian parakeet species of the Psittacula genus. The Alexandrine parakeet, is one of the largest parrots commonly referred as a parakeet.

 

Parakeet - Wikipedia