Waterholes in the Red Centre have been transformed into a lush oasis for Australia's iconic green and gold budgerigar. Central Australian budgie numbers have exploded, thanks to the wettest summer in ...

Hundreds of budgerigars have been helped in the first year of a charity after it was set up in a mid-terraced house. Charlie's Place UK was created by Siân Owen in Rugby, Warwickshire, 12 months ago ...

When it comes to affairs of the heart, there are a variety of factors at play: mutual attraction, shared interests, an intangible spark that eventually leads to love. But in Darwinian terms, the ...

Budgies are such a quintessential Australian pet, it’s easy to forget they’re one of our most fascinating endemic birds. Found across the Australian mainland, particularly throughout Australia’s dry ...

A wildlife photographer has captured stunning images of a budgie murmuration as more than 8,000 birds swarmed at a secret waterhole in Central Australia on Friday. The thousands of green and yellow ...

Scientists may have discovered why birds never seem to crash into one another – they appear to always veer to the right. Just like cars drive on the right of the road in France or the US to avoid ...

Birds of a feather Ghalib and Janice Al-Nasser shell out £2,000 a year on their hobby THIS pensioner couple really are birds of a feather – as they share their home with 400 budgerigars. Ghalib ...

Budgerigars, as members of the parrot family, have long been known to be able to mimic human speech. But now researchers have found that their brains are also able to pick out abstract patterns in ...

There are diseases that can be transferred to humans from psittacine birds, such as parrots and budgies, such as a viral infection. In addition, people can also show an allergic reaction to feathers ...

Listen on BBC Sounds: Siân Owen runs the charity from a mid-terraced house Hundreds of budgerigars have been helped in the first year of a charity after it was set up in a mid-terraced house.