This handy guide is for all parakeet fans, beginners and experts alike. It contains all you need to know about these wonderful little birds, from choosing them and setting up their cage, to keeping your birds healthy, happy and well-fed. There’s also loads of information about where parakeets – also known as budgies or budgerigars - come from, and the many varieties of this magnificent bird.

Parakeet, budgie, budgerigar - Everything you need to know about this wonderful bird!
This little guide is arranged in user-friendly, easy to navigate subsections, so you can find what you need quickly and easily. If there’s any information you’re looking for that isn’t in this guide, or if you have any other feedback, comments or suggestions, we would love to hear from you.
Colin, 11 June 2022
I recently bought 2 budgie's for £70 if I go near them or give them food & water they go mad bouncing around the cage i had get 1 who's wing was caught in the bars of cage i don't want them if there harming themselves in panic when i walk past i think there best off in a avery not a cage in house, gorgeous look at but not working out I'm after either 1 or 2 that are tame & not damaging thereselves each time i move, anyone with tame 1s that at least sit on your hand with freaking out I'm in Salford area if anybody can help me out be very grateful ????????