My friend Louis Garwood took this picture of Michael Freeman's two budgies, Sky (the blue one) and Harry (the white one). They have both kindly allowed me to use this for a jigsaw puzzle and a postcard.

As always, you may have to scroll over to get the whole puzzle in your computer window. You can make this harder (or easier) by changing the size and shape of puzzle pieces.



Click here to send this picture as a postcard.

Budgies come in a rainbow of colours, although the normal wild colours of green and yellow are still the most commonly available. The blue and white budgies also occurs in the wild, but is not as common as the green and yellow. For many years, these were the only colours available as pets. Now there are numerous shades of greens and blues or yellow or white and anything in between or a combination of all. Also the familiar dark shell wings have been replaced in many of the birds by any of the above colours or variations.

Budgies originate in Australia where they can still be seen flying in large flocks. The English Budgie is a larger bird that was obtained by selectively breeding the largest birds from clutches bred in England over many years. Due to their larger size and much larger head, they sometimes do not even look like the original little budgie.

If you have a budgie (or more), why not drop by the bird forum where we can talk about our birds? It is simple to register (if you haven't already) and we have many knowlegable people around to answer any questions you might have. Or - maybe you can answer some questions. Just below is a list of the most recent posts and you can just click on any topic to follow it to the forum.

To learn more about the wonderful little Budgie, you can purchase the e-book I have written about these birds. Information I learned from several years of keeping and breeding Budgies can be found on the pages.


or take a look at some of the wonderful Budgie books available at Avian Publications.