I have a baby budgie that I removed from his parents a week ago. He is the most friendly bird that I have ever had in the house (already flies around the room and lands on me when I call, instead of the furniture).

However...when in his cage, he looks up as far as he can and does a backflip...not just one, but several in a row. He can now do it from hanging on the cage wire, off a perch or just jumping from the floor. He does a backflip in such a small area...not just that, but he sometimes decides that he wants to lie on his back in the cage and nibble at the newspaper. Anyone seen a backflipping budgie before?? He gets lots of attention and has toys so I don't think he is bored.

He sounds like quite a character!

Ha ha that sounds brilliant! You should try and get it on video!

I have uploaded a video to youtube...

All three of my pet budgies have done that while they were young. As they mature, maybe they feel it is beneath their dignity!!!

 

Actually, not quite like that, (missed your video, must have skipped over it) but they have all hung on the side or roof of the cage and and turned themselves inside out.

Edited June 21, 201114 yr by Hezz

Lol that's so cute! Looks like great fun!

Very unusual

What a cracker! I have a boy that loves to get one leg on the side of the cage, one on the perch and somehow he does this thing where he manages to do a somersault by going forward and underneath between his legs while his legs are still attached to where they were. It's amazing!I love watch budgies do their stunts, they are such little showoffs

Edited July 4, 201113 yr by moglet

ahaha thats soo cool what a cute little budgie you have there

An update: Kami is still backflipping but it is now more refined...he gains more height and can complete the flip in mid air and land squarely on his feet - he doesn't need his wings to balance any more. I have been away but my parents are now reporting that he has developed an interest in crocheting. My mother is trying to make a blanket and by the sounds of things Kami would like to be woven into it as he climbs through mums hands and stands on the hook. I shall try and get a video to post...

 

After less than 3 weeks in the house he is occasionally mimicking some whistles and flies to us when we call him. I haven't ever had a budgie that learns this fast, even ones that I have bred.