I think clipping wings whether or not to do it all depends on what you plan to do with them. I don't think there's any difference between which one is tamer clipped or not clipped but there's a mighty good chance that your un-clipped parakeet will take flight and you then have to start over again. My parakeets wings are clipped because he still can fly away from me if he really wants to. Since my Parakeet is taken to school often with a twenty different people wanting to hold him I do clip his wings because we often have open windows and there are many different dangers out in the world. If I had a cat or dog it'd be a different story.
