Budgerigar
Melopsittacus undulatus
Least Concern
The Budgerigar - or 'budgie' - is the world's most popular pet parrot! Wild budgies are green and yellow with black bars, but pet budgies have been bred in blues, whites, and many other colors.
In the wild, budgies live in huge flocks in the Australian outback, sometimes numbering in the thousands! They're excellent talkers and one budgie held the record for the largest vocabulary - 1,728 words!
Size
About the size of a computer mouse
Tiny (<15 cm)
Wingspan: 30 cm
Weight: 35 g
Colors
green
yellow
blue
Habitat
grasslanddesert
Diet
seeds
Fun Facts
- ✨A budgie named Puck held the record for largest vocabulary - 1,728 words!
- ✨Wild budgies are always green and yellow.
- ✨They're the third most popular pet after dogs and cats.
- ✨Flocks can contain hundreds of thousands of birds!
Conservation Status
Least Concern
Great news! This bird is doing well. There are lots of them in the wild, and they have safe places to live and find food.
Population trend: increasing 📈