amazing budgie facts

(1) the correct name for the keeping of birds is aviculture.

(2) the oldest budgerigar recorded was charlie who live untill he was 29 years and 2 months in stonebridge,london.he was born in 1984 and died in 1977.

(3) the budgie with the largest vovabulary was puck,who could say an estimated 1,728 words.

(4) a lost budgerigar was reunited with its owner after reciting its address.

(5) when they are first born budgerigar chicks weigh just 2 grammes.

(6) budgerigars have 3 eye lids,an upper ,a lower and a third that it can pull across the side to protect the eye.

(7) budgerigars are warm blooded with a temperature of about 41 0c,higher then a cat or dog.

(8) a budgie named sparkie who had a repertoire of 8 nursery rhymes and a vocabulary of over 5oo words became a star after selling over 20,ooo records.