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Blue, Yellow, Green, Colors Of Budgies As Pets, Displayed In Cages At The Bird And Flower Market, Nanning
A collection of budgies, or budgerigars, most of them on perches in their cages, presented a wide selection of colors, so anyone wanting some budgies as pets, would have plenty to chose from. Many people prefer to chose budgies as pets for their homes, rather than some larger birds such as parrots. Father built an aviary for his budgies, pets that shared space with finches and other bird types that seemed to tolerate each other. The aviary for the pet budgies was in two part; a brick building with large windows, with access for the pet budgies to an outdoor cage of netting, with perches and water baths. Inside the building, nesting boxes were fitted to the walls and the ceiling of the building was of paster board.
Some of the nesting boxes were used by some of the pet budgies, to lay their eggs and hatch their chicks. Having budgies as pets with their own ideas of what was needed, created an unforeseen situation. The pet budgies discovered that the plasterboard ceiling was 'peckable', so they pecked holes in the ceiling to build their nests out of sight and out of reach of their keeper! When the eggs of the budgies hatched, the nestlings could be heard, but not seen, until these special budgies as pets decided to present themselves to the rest of the birds, and to their keeper !
*** Budgerigars (Budgies) in their natural-habitats of Australia are noticeably smaller than those in captivity. This particular parrot species has been bred in many other colours and shades in captivity (i.e. blue, grey, greygreen, pieds, violet, white, yellow...) although they are mostly found in pet stores in blue, green and yellow. Budgerigar (Budgie) plumage is known to fluoresce under ultraviolet light (as most other parrot species do as well), a phenomenon possibly related to courtship and mate selection.
All captive budgerigars are divided into two basic series of colours; namely, white-based (i.e. blue, grey -white budgerigars) and/or yellow-based (i.e. green, greygreen, yellow budgerigars). There are presently at least 32 primary mutations in the budgerigar, enabling hundreds of possible secondary mutations (stable combined primary mutations) and colour varieties (unstable combined mutations).
SRC: Wikipedia.Org ***
Some of the nesting boxes were used by some of the pet budgies, to lay their eggs and hatch their chicks. Having budgies as pets with their own ideas of what was needed, created an unforeseen situation. The pet budgies discovered that the plasterboard ceiling was 'peckable', so they pecked holes in the ceiling to build their nests out of sight and out of reach of their keeper! When the eggs of the budgies hatched, the nestlings could be heard, but not seen, until these special budgies as pets decided to present themselves to the rest of the birds, and to their keeper !
*** Budgerigars (Budgies) in their natural-habitats of Australia are noticeably smaller than those in captivity. This particular parrot species has been bred in many other colours and shades in captivity (i.e. blue, grey, greygreen, pieds, violet, white, yellow...) although they are mostly found in pet stores in blue, green and yellow. Budgerigar (Budgie) plumage is known to fluoresce under ultraviolet light (as most other parrot species do as well), a phenomenon possibly related to courtship and mate selection.
All captive budgerigars are divided into two basic series of colours; namely, white-based (i.e. blue, grey -white budgerigars) and/or yellow-based (i.e. green, greygreen, yellow budgerigars). There are presently at least 32 primary mutations in the budgerigar, enabling hundreds of possible secondary mutations (stable combined primary mutations) and colour varieties (unstable combined mutations).
SRC: Wikipedia.Org ***
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