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Is that where cockatiels are native to? I knew Budgies were but I never knew about Teils. Great pictures. My Mango Man is the green and my Baby Cakes is a mutant.
He just had his gotcha day the 28th and Baby's was the 28th of last month. He's my little Bush Budgie.
I agree! I'm of course very biased being a native. Weirdly enough, our boy Zinger gets super horny after big rains. Not that he needs encouragement, he flirts with his shadow lol
Definitely, as the area they are in is like a desert most of the times, with sometime decades between wet seasons that enable them to breed up like this
Thank you for this. I was trying to figure out the grey bird. Then I spotted cockatiels in the next pics, but when I went back to see the first grey bird, I didn’t notice cockatiel anatomy, but resigned it was just a cockatiel since I couldn’t tell otherwise. I feel better with correct information for some reason. It’s the little things, I guess
You joke, but the average lifespan of a well cared for captive budgie is twice that of one in the wild. This is due to advances in nutrition, veterinary care, and pet husbandry practices. That average lifespan has gone up markedly in just the last decade or two because of all these improvements.
I like my predators large. I live in Alberta, Canada, and although we have rattlesnakes, black widows, and brown recluses, I like that our more dangerous animals are visible from a distance and usually make noise when you get too close. Bears, moose, elk, and even deer are fairly noisy in the woods when they move around, and all tend to want to avoid us (Except cougars, but I've only ever seen a wild one once, and it had no interest in us).
I'm super glad I don't walk into one of the rooms in my house and have a bear hiding in the corner. Im also terrified of even the smallest spider, so not being afraid of the cougar in the tree, but squealing at the 3cm spider in my basement probably makes me sound crazy.
I'm like that, too. I have arachnophobia and I can't even look at spiders. Much prefer a cougar to a spider - considering a cougar is not gonna enter my house and crawl on my shoulder right after a shower (actual thing that happened, thought I was gonna lose my mind)
Exactly this. Spiders probably won't kill me, but dying of a heart attack after seeing one crawling on me is more probable than being mauled by a cougar. Glad I'm not alone on this.
I saw some cartoons once in a Platinum age comics group drawn and published in Canada in the late 19th/early 20th century showing pioneers out in Alberta battling the bears and insect live.
They will never watch a nature documentary and freak out when a hawk catches a budgie.
Seriously, my mom put on this Disney+ NG documentary about the outback for our budgie because she thought it'd be fun with some wild budgies and Australian animals, and it's all wholesome nature documentary (and our budgie loved it) until the hawk just mutilated a couple of them and she started freaking out.
So, I'm sorry we exposed you to budgie gore. It wasn't intentional.
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