Comments for Normal Budgie Behaviour

Apple, 30 June 2019

Hey I just got a budgie female and a couple weeks old. She won’t move from the perch I set her on and it’s been about an hour. I played her some music and talked to her and she is opening her beak and sticking her tongue out. I realized that when she fake yawns like that it means she is scared. I played soft calm quiet music and she continued to rotate now and then on her perch. Sometimes she moves back and fourth on her perch. She doesn’t do anything else though. Is this just a sense of her getting to know her surroundings? Is this normal? Please help me out with my theory.

Rose, 18 June 2019

Hi, Heidi I am not an expert but I have kept budges and have some veterinary training. When getting a new bird to put in with an established one you have to be cautious. Keep them in separate cages so they can just hear each other for a week or so then so they can see each other for another week or even two so that any initial aggression turns to curiosity. Only when the birds are comfortable through the bars with each other (perhaps by nibbling from the same bit of food) should you put them in together especially if your current bird is aggressive.

Heidi, 13 June 2019

My daughter got a beautiful pure white budgie and brought her home to her blue colored male budgie because I told her that he would get lonely and I've read that they do better with a mate. Within 3 days her Male killed the beautiful, sweet, white female. He was mean to her right away but we thought they'd adjust. On the 3rd morning she woke to her dead and picked full of holes. Is this normal? Should she try again with another female at the risk of this happening again?

Erum, 10 June 2019

I’ve bought a hand-fed English budgie. It’s his 5th day with us but still he is v quiet, not v active even in his cage. I don’t know if he is feeling well? Plz advise

Arthur, 29 May 2019

My two budgies always are scratching, is this normal

Gabriel, 24 April 2019

My budgie turning its head and scratching itself frequently

Megha, 23 April 2019

I would like to know why 1.5 mnths old budgie fights with my hand or finger when he is sitting in nestbox.

Elaine, 18 April 2019

I would. Like to know why my budgie keeps knocking his dish with the seed to the bottom of the cage

Rimi, 12 April 2019

my budgie is turning its head around and scratching itself every day and also freguently like 1 or 2 feathers fall of of him WHAT DO I DO is it a bad sign or a good sign

Nicole, 17 March 2019

Why is my budgie hiding his head and chattering to himself