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Tiny, colorful, and full of chatter, that's the budgie for you 🦜💛 These little parakeets are surprisingly smart and, with patient training from a young age, can learn to whistle or even mimic a few simple words. To keep them thriving, give them a cage roomy enough to flutter around in, add fresh veggies alongside their seed mix, and spend time chatting with them daily since budgies love interaction. Keeping a pair together also helps them stay happy when you are busy.

Do you keep budgies or another kind of pet bird? Does yours have any fun little party trick?

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🦜 Thinking about getting a budgie but not sure where to start? Good news — budgies are one of the friendliest, smartest, and easiest pet birds for first-time owners!

A few basics to get right: pick a cage roomy enough for them to hop and flap around, place it somewhere with natural light but away from direct drafts, and feed a mix of quality seed plus fresh veggies for extra vitamins. Budgies are social little chatterboxes, so spending a few minutes a day talking to them or training them to step onto your hand really speeds up the bonding process.

Anyone else keeping pet birds? What is your budgies name, and do they have any funny little quirks? Show them off below! 🐦✨

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Same situation here! Ended up going to the vet and it was . Better to check than guess.

Same situation here! Ended up going to the vet and it was . Better to check than guess.