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Egg
Joined: 21 Aug 2006
Posts: 13
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Hmmm. I read that the English budgie was mean tempered and lazy but I have never had one so I wouldn't know. |
Tuesday August 22, 2006 6:26 pm |
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Alaska
Egg
Joined: 21 Aug 2006
Posts: 13
Location: Somewhere. Upon a horse. |
Here are two pics:
[img]http://www.mts.net/~mavimet/budgiesize1.jpg[img]
The one on the left is an English
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Tuesday August 22, 2006 6:30 pm |
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Fluffy Sue
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 10060
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??? I can't see the photos.  |
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Wednesday August 23, 2006 9:57 am |
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cheekie_birdy
Experienced flier
Joined: 08 Jul 2006
Posts: 1719
Location: Canada |
English budgies are much like American budgies, but they are bigger, have big foreheads, and don't live as long. The English budgie was bred to be a show budgie and the american as more of a pet, but english are pets too. The personailty is just like all birds, all depends. I don't know the overall personailty, though.
Pictures: http://images.google.ca/images.....&hl=en |
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Friday August 25, 2006 8:32 pm |
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Yupra
Flying tumbler
Joined: 05 Feb 2006
Posts: 2206
Location: CA |
My goodness! Some of those little foreheads look so big I'm surprised they can see through all those feathers  |
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Saturday August 26, 2006 1:44 am |
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cheekie_birdy
Experienced flier
Joined: 08 Jul 2006
Posts: 1719
Location: Canada |
yes, they do have very big foreheads! I might foster an english budgie..I don't know though  |
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Friday September 1, 2006 12:39 am |
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bookwrm6197
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Joined: 29 Mar 2007
Posts: 108
Location: New York City, United States |
I totally agree that they should be called the Austrailian Budgie because they originate from Austrailia, but we can't do anthing about it, cuz we're not the ones naming the specis! |
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Sunday April 15, 2007 6:19 pm |
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bookwrm6197
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Joined: 29 Mar 2007
Posts: 108
Location: New York City, United States |
quote:
Originally posted by bookwrm6197
I totally agree that they should be called the Austrailian Budgie because they originate from Austrailia, but we can't do anthing about it, cuz we're not the ones naming the specis!
oopsie...i posted in the wrong forum. Wonder how that happened?? |
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Sunday April 15, 2007 6:21 pm |
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jletaz
Experienced flier
Joined: 28 Feb 2007
Posts: 1282
Location: CA, USA |
I've always wondered how people in the US came to refer to Budgies as "parakeets"?  They are only one species of many types of parakeets!
Maybe since they were the first parakeet species to be commonly kept as pets here? Generic name
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Sunday April 15, 2007 8:37 pm |
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bookwrm6197
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Joined: 29 Mar 2007
Posts: 108
Location: New York City, United States |
quote:
Originally posted by jletaz
I've always wondered how people in the US came to refer to Budgies as "parakeets"? They are only one species of many types of parakeets!
Maybe since they were the first parakeet species to be commonly kept as pets here? Generic name
Julie
Perhaps, but they should still be called Austrailian budgies, don't u agree? Becuz they are really from austrailia! Oh well, as long as they are wonderful birds, we shouldn't really mind. |
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Saturday April 21, 2007 1:16 am |
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Cheeta
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Joined: 06 Apr 2005
Posts: 7952
Location: Australia |
Well technically, they should be called 'budgie', or 'budgeridgar'... there are like four other names for them, but budgeridgars are the most common.
English budgies are called english budgies because the show budgies were first developed in England, I think that's why they are called that. most breeders in the budgies world only refer them to as 'show' or 'pet'. I was once told that the 'american budgies' are smaller than those pets in Australia, so I don't know how true that is. but I have to say though I've spoken to some americans with budgies, and their pet size are generally smaller than those pets size budgies here in Australia, but still...
I still dont know why a lot of people in the US refers them as Parakeets as like Julie says, they are only a sub type of parakeets... but now I just assumed that all parakeets means budgies... this was a big mistake when someone else mentione parakeets, but was refering to indian parakeets. oh well... this is internet.. hehehehe |
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Saturday April 21, 2007 5:58 am |
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SparkeysDad
Bappie
Joined: 21 Aug 2007
Posts: 60
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i know budgie is short
for somthing um? i know it means good to eat |
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Saturday November 10, 2007 4:52 pm |
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bookwrm6197
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Joined: 29 Mar 2007
Posts: 108
Location: New York City, United States |
quote:
Originally posted by SparkeysDad
i know budgie is short
for somthing um? i know it means good to eat
Yeah. The name "Budgerigar" was derived from the meaning good to eat, because Aborigine people would occasionally snack on them, and they were considered "good to eat!" I would never be able to snack on a parrot, although truthfully, i do snack on pigeons. I just did yesterday... |
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Sunday November 11, 2007 6:12 pm |
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homebird
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Joined: 09 Apr 2006
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Location: Toronto, Canada |
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I think i responded to another thread about Budgies & their name.
Yes a lot of people say that the name Budgerigar means good to eat & apparently the Aussies has used slang variations of Budgery to mean tasty???
But my favourite interpretation is the scientific names for them which refer to their melodious sound & striped look - which sets them apart from all other parrots.
Melopsittacus undulatus
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budgerigar
The Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus, nicknamed budgie), the only species in the Australian genus Melopsittacus, is a small parrot belonging to the tribe of the broad-tailed parrots (Platycercini); these are sometimes considered a subfamily (Platycercinae). In the latter case, the Budgerigar is sometimes isolated in a tribe of its own, the Melopsittacini, although it is probably quite closely related to Pezoporus and Neophema.[2] Though Budgerigars are often called Parakeets, especially in American English, this term refers to any of a number of small Parrots with long flat tails. The Budgerigar is found throughout the drier parts of Australia and has survived in the inlands of that continent for over 5 million years.[3]
Etymology
Several possible origins for the English name Budgerigar have been proposed:
* A compound of budgery, "good" and gar "Cockatoo". Budgerigar means "good eating" or "good food" in some Australian Aboriginal languages.[4] This is supported by the Oxford English Dictionary. The word budgery itself, also spelt boojery, was formerly in use in Australian English slang meaning "good".
* An alteration of Gamilaraay gidjirrigaa (IPA: /ɡiɟiriɡaː/),[5] possibly influenced by the slang word budgery mentioned above. This is supported by the American Heritage Dictionary.
The genus name Melopsittacus comes from Greek and means "melodious parrot". The species name undulatus is Latin for "undulated" or "wave-patterned".
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