Budgie VS Parakeet
I am sure you have heard of budgies and parakeet, but what is the difference? are they the same thing? what do you have living in your home?
Every Budgie is a Parakeet but not all Parakeets are budgies.
In the simplest explanation Budgies/Budgerigar’s are a subspecies of parakeet
Characteristics of a Parakeet
- long tail feathers
- Slender bodies
- curious
- genus melopsittacus
- 30 – 50 grams
- colourful
- messy
- quite noisy
- zygodactyl feet
Characteristics of a Budgies
- 30 – 40 grams
- stubborn
- genus melopsittane
- colourful
- quite noisy
- zygodactyl feet
Species of Parakeet
- Budgeriar
- mustache parakeet
- Monk Parakeet
- Alexandrine Parakeet
- Plum-Headed Parakeet
- Indian Ring Neck Parakeet
- Bourke’s Parakeet
- Splendid Parakeet
- Blossom – Headed Parakeet
- Sierra Parakeet
- and many more!