When you’re looking for a small bird as a pet, parakeets or budgies are generally recommended. The truth is that a budgie is a parakeet! It can be quite confusing, but only in the U.S. is a budgie ...

Strolling through St. Paul’s Phalen Park last fall with some birdwatching friends, I heard an unusual bird call, repeated several times. Following the sounds to an oak tree, we were startled to see ...

PARAMUS — One of the Bergen County Zoo’s most popular exhibitsis back up and running after being closed for months as a precaution. The budgies exhibit officially opened this week after closing to ...

DETROIT – An animal rescue in the Detroit area got an unexpected delivery on Christmas Eve in the form of hundreds of parakeets. More than 400 budgie birds, commonly known as parakeets, were ...

THE humble budgie has become an unexpected menace in the latest H7N9 bird flu outbreak. H7N9 emerged in south-east China last March, infecting 136 people. It returned in October, infecting 116 more.

Birds are some of the best dancers. Birds were all Broadway dancers in a past life, I swear: they have moves for days. Even the smallest of birds have some of the best senses of rhythm in the whole ...