Posted September 28, 201014 yr Hi all, This would be the first bird forum I joined and looking forward to everyone's pictures and advice. By the looks of it, it is a friendly community and an Aussie based forum which is great to keep in contact or meet new people with similar interests. If anyone else is interested, I appear in other forums relating to planted tanks, shrimps and crayfishes under the names 'bugman2494' and 'netty_3164' A little about me ~ I'm 16 and I have kept quite a few cockatiels in the past and I recently received and bought budgies. Currently own two 'American' (one yellow face, one clearwing) and one baby yellow face violet 'English' budgerigar. Funny how the 'English' baby is already bigger than the adult American budgies. Much more fluffier and so cute. Anyways, thats my introduction. Looking forward to posting around. John
September 28, 201014 yr Hi John Good to have you here. One thing........... there is no American budgies and since you live in Australia there certainly isnt any here for sure. American petshops love to rename things a lot.............so the term american parakeet came from that. They are pet types or show types. No "english" here either.....again USA terminology. Good thing we are aussie based here eh PS have fun............look around. Check out our FAQ section and use the search function to dig up topics of interest Edited September 28, 201014 yr by KAZ
September 28, 201014 yr Author Thanks for the warm welcome guys. I am aware that budgerigars come from the Australian bush however this terminology is what is oftened used over the internet. My bad, show and pet budgies. Will remember that. I should look through the 'standard' subforum but will ask here anyway. So the larger ones are the show budgies? My 8 week old budgie is already larger than my current budgies. I am sure she is a baby because it was labelled 'baby budgies' and also the adults were gigantic compared to my ones at home. Also, reading through this forum, a black tip on their beak is an indication of a baby bird.
September 28, 201014 yr Hi, Netty! Welcome to the forum! We love pictures here, so why not post some of your birds for us? We can tell you if we think the baby is really a baby. (If you bought it at a pet store, sometimes they will label them as babies, just to sell them better. ) I see you have another thread, I'll go look at that one, maybe you already put pictures there.
September 29, 201014 yr Author Cheers guys. @ Finie, yup, there are two bad quality pictures of my 'pet' budgerigars in the other thread. Really annoyed at my sister for killing the camera. She stupidly left it on the sand at the beach. No nice pictures atm, hope to get a new camera soon. I'll take a webcam picture of my yellow face violet buderigar soon anwyays so see what you guys think. Not great, but the best I can do for a while. ~John
