This thread is partially for me to keep track, partially so I can get some advice. Just learned that Bowie is a female bird but I've gotten so used to thinking of him as male I'm going to stick with he/him Bowie is over a year old (I assume he's almost 2 but I can't be sure) and he's not even...

Hi I am fairly new to owning budgies other than when I was a kid my grandpa used to have quite a flock of them. Recently, I adopted a pair of budgies who are 9 months old, and despite both used to be from a breeder who hand feed the chicks, the pair's previous owner left them neglected for a...

I have a 3 year old budgie who is already mostly tame, but I haven't been able to handle him for quite a long time. Now he is quite skittish and tends to bite if I get too close, the thing is I have started to realise that I tend to flinch when his beak gets too close to my hand and I can't...