These are my pair of rosie bourkes, a budgie-sized parrot also native to Australia. The color is amazing on these guys. They are qentler and much more subdued than regular parakeets (budgies) and they are shy, quiet birds.
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I didn't know these existed!These are my pair of rosie bourkes, a budgie-sized parrot also native to Australia. The color is amazing on these guys. They are qentler and much more subdued than regular parakeets (budgies) and they are shy, quiet birds.
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They're very nice! What are their names?
I do just want to clarify for anyone else reading this, there are no "regular parakeets". Parakeets is just a group of parrots that includes budgies, bourke's parakeets, plum-headed parakeets, white-winged parakeets, and many, many more.
I am well aware that the name parakeet is commonly used here in the US, especially in pet stores. However, budgie is the proper name, therefore I prefer to use that. It's a pet peeve of mine, because a lot of people get confused about which name is right.You can call them budgies, but this isn't a name used in the United States that I have ever seen. Nobody at a pet store here would understand you if you said budgie. Budgies are sold as "parakeets" without a descriptor and widely understood. Any other small parrot is specified some other type of parakeet. Bourke, scarlet-chested, ringneck, canary-wing etc. None of these are a clade, or necessarily closely related to each other. It's supposed to mean "small long-tailed parrot" but it also applied to short-tailed species like the Brotogeris genus, so really it's a meaningless term.
Because their beaks are grey and match the feathers on their faces, I keep seeing them with no beaks!I love Bourke Parakeets.
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