1. Basic information of budgerigar

The budgerigar is a small species in the parrot family. Its feathers are bright and colorful, its temperament is lively and its call is crisp, innocent, cute and easy. It is one of the most popular bird species in China. The head is round, the beak is hooked, and there is a wax film above the beak (the sex of most budgies can be distinguished by the color of the wax film). Budgerigars have relatively short legs and four toes. The second and third toes are forward, and the first and fourth toes are backward. It is easy for them to climb trees and objects.

The body is yellow-green; the back of the head, the sides of the neck, the upper back and the wing coverts are light brown with yellow and black on each feather; the throat and face are yellow; the underside of the cheeks With varying degrees of blue-purple, the throat has 3 black dots; the chest feathers have a narrow black border. Main flight feathers coverts light blue; flight feathers grey-green with light stripes; inner grey with white markings; upper central feathers of the tail blue-green with black tips and black inside. Beak olive yellow, cere blue; iris white. Forehead and face yellow. There are purple-blue spots on the cheeks. The nose pack of males is light blue, and the females are flesh-colored.

The average lifespan of a budgerigar is 7 years. The body length is 16 to 18 cm and the weight is 35 grams.

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2. The origin of the budgerigar

The budgerigar is native to Oceania , widely distributed in the Australian inland area, the coastal areas of the eastern, southwestern and northern provinces, Cape York Peninsula, and Tasmania also have a small distribution. It has been introduced (including escaped cages) to many countries, but most of them cannot survive and reproduce successfully, including the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, Brazil, Switzerland, Colombia, Society Islands, New Zealand, Oman and other countries, but Populations from Florida in the United States were introduced in the 1950s but have successfully survived and reproduced.

The head and back feathers of budgies are generally yellow and have black stripes. The coat color and stripes are like budgies, so they are called budgies.

Scientific name: Melopsittacus undulatus

Also known as: Asuer, Parrot, Jiaofeng, Hong Kong people call it Caifeng

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Third, the living habits of budgerigars

Wild budgerigars generally feed on the seeds, berries, buds and leaves of various plants, and fly to the fields in autumn to peck at grains.

To feed budgerigars, the mixing ratio of feed is: 7 parts of millet or millet, 2 parts of barnyard tares, and 1 part of su seeds. This mixed pellet is suitable for feeding a variety of small parrots, plus mineral feed such as cuttlefish bones and shells. Artificial budgerigars hatch in darker nests. If the light in the nest is too strong, the hatching effect is not good. The artificial nest box generally supplied is composed of two inner and outer cells. The inner nest is cushioned with sawdust or fine sand, which is the place where female birds lay eggs and hatch. The reference size of the nest box is: length 25cm, width 13cm, height 13cm; the diameter of the nest mouth is 5~6cm, and the lower edge of the nest mouth is 6 cm from the bottom of the nest. ~7 cm.

4. Tiger skin Varieties of parrots

Since the great discovery and breakthrough of genetic engineering by biologist Gigermand in 1900 AD, the varieties of various budgerigars have entered an unprecedented diversity, and now There are thousands of varieties and they are so easy to care for and breed that they are so common.

There are many species of budgies artificially cultivated, which are mainly distinguished from the color of their body feathers. They can generally be divided into the following types:

1. Corrugated budgies

Domestic budgerigars basically belong to this category. Body plumage color markings are similar to the original species, with blue, yellow, green and other colors, and the upper body is covered with black horizontal stripes.

2. Pale budgerigar

This type can be divided into two strains with yellow upper body, green abdomen and white upper body, blue abdomen, and black spots on the wings (and some don't).

3. Jade-headed budgerigar

There are two strains of this type, one has a white head, and the other parts are blue; the other has a head Yellow, other parts of the body feathers are green.

4. Albino budgerigar

There are two strains of this type, with white plumage and red eyes, called white-red-eyed budgerigar; plumage is white , with large black spots all over the body, called the clouded budgerigar.

5. Yellow-eyed budgerigar

The body feathers of this type are yellow and the eyes are red, called yellow-red-eyed budgerigar

V. Colors

Budgerigar species can be divided into 20 categories:

1. The most common budgie species in Base Color.

2. Opaline {pattern variation} The main difference between Opaline and the original species is the striped feathers on the back, and the blue and white series (including sky blue, cobalt blue, violet, white) have opal The outer color of the dorsal feathers is blue, and the outer color of the back feathers is white. Yellow-green series (including bright green, dark green, olive green, lemon yellow) with opal is green, without yellow. The gray series (including gray and carbon black) is gray with opal, and white without it. Features: There is an inverted triangle solid color area on the back, and the end of each wing feather shows the same color as the body.

3. Greywing (Grewing or Clearwing or Dilution) {color variation} The first two English translation names of Greywing are "Grewing" (referring to the pattern changing from black to gray) and "Grewing". "Bright wings" (referring to the change of the color of the wings from dark colors based on black to bright colors based on light colors) are all from the wings. And "dilution" refers to the process in which the wing pattern, along with the body color, is diluted and lightened. Generally speaking, the gray wings are the pattern that has been diluted from the original black to different degrees of gray, and the blue-green on the body is also diluted to different degrees of light green and light blue. Features: Compared with the original species, the black runes on the body are faded to gray.

4. Cinnamon {Color Variation} It is similar to "Grey Wing" in that it has a change in wing color, but the difference is that the grey wing's wings are diluted gray, while the cinnamon wing has a color change. It is diluted to a "cinnamon" that is close to brown. Features: Compared with the original species, the black runes on the body are all faded to brown.

5. Yellow/albino species (yellow/white red eye) (Lutino) {color variation} Lutino species is a variation of color, that is, all symbols on the green body disappear, and melanin is completely replaced, Green is diluted to yellow. The iris of the eyes also changed from black to red, one of the few breeds that also mutated the color of the iris. Albino species are similar to luteinized species, in that albinism is formed by a bluing of a yellowed bird. The characteristics are similar to those of yellowing, but the difference is that the whole body is white. Features: red eyes, pure yellow/pure white feathers.

6. Spangle is actually the color structure of the wings and the structure of the original species is completely reversed. The area that should be black in the original species is white on the spangle and is Where the fish scales are white, they are black. Because black becomes the color of the outer circle, the scale species has much less black than the large distribution of the black area on the wings of the original species. Features: The edge of each feather is black, and the rest is solid color, corresponding to the color system.

7. Dominant Pied (Dominant Pied, Recessive Pied, Clearflight Pied) {pattern variation} is divided into three categories:

Dominant Pied - Inheritance Type: Dominant Inheritance As long as one parent has a dominant gene, the offspring will have offspring with the same or similar traits. Features: The two large wings are solid color, and there are white circles under the eyes when they are adults.

Recessive Pat - Inheritance Type: Recessive parents must both carry the same recessive gene in order to pass the recessive trait to their offspring. Features: The black runes on the body are irregular and fuzzy, and there are no white eye circles in adulthood.

Bright flight feathers only have the flight feathers at the end of the wings faded to pure white or pure yellow. The spots and lumps that appear on the body are also relatively small, and there is usually some clear body feather color on the neck. There are also clear feather patches on the back of the head.

8. Yellowface {color variation} Normally green birds (bright green, dark green, dark green, gray green, yellow...) have yellow faces, while blue The bird (sky blue, dark blue, violet, inky, lilac, grey, white...) has a white face. When the blue white face is replaced by the yellow face. These birds are called yellow-faced species. Features: The body is a blue bird with a yellow face.

9. Crested {hair type variation} Crested feathers belong to the change of hair type, which can be roughly divided into 3 types: "tufted crest feathers, semicircular crest feathers, round crown feathers" Feather (full crown)" three kinds. At the same time, Japan also has a crown-feather variety that appears with the curled back, which is called the crown-feather curled back. The characteristic of the crown feathers is the shape of the feathers on the top of the head, usually with symmetrical hair type as the aesthetic standard. Features: hair type variation.

10. Fallow {special variation} Fallow is the only species with red eyes other than yellow/albino and lacewing, and all kinds of markings may appear in Fallow. On the music. Characteristics: variegated feathers, red eyes, feathers with a slight cinnamon dip effect.

11. Saddleback {special variation } This looks somewhat similar to opal, but it is actually not the same type. The blackback species has gray markings from the head, and gradually returns to normal black markings down the neck. There is no "opal" on the neck. V"-shaped vacancy.

12. Texas Clearbody {special variation} Because it was first produced in Texas, USA. So it's usually called "Texas Clearbody", and when you see this bird, you don't usually notice it's special. Because the markings of the body are basically the same as the normal bird except for the color. The main feature is that on its body, the basic color of the abdomen is diluted, blue is diluted to light blue-white, green is diluted to bright yellow, and other characteristics remain unchanged. Another point is that the bright species are not mixed with any variegation, and the flight feathers at the bottom of the wings will appear gray instead of the usual black, which is also a major key to the difference.

13. Slate {special variant} An extremely rare species. The way this color appears is similar to the color change of gray or violet, and the gene causes a very, very deep blue. Real slate tiger skins only appear on blue skins.

14. Anthracite {Special Variation} Anthracite has a very dark body color, the darkest of any known tiger breed. Black plumage is extremely rare.

15. Blackface {special variant} is also an extremely rare variant that only occurs in the Netherlands. The black-faced bird is a variant with increased melanin pigmentation. It can be reflected from the body and head, and it is also the only bird in the tiger skin that has markings on its body.

16. The mottled species is also a kind of variegated bird. The reason it is not a pat is that the variegated arrangement of this bird has no certain rules. It looks like the arrangement of feathers is like Randomly mixed up. And it also has a feature that is the increase in the amount of hair.

17. Half-Sider {special mutation} This is a gene type that cannot be inherited, and is a complete mutation. Visually, this bird will appear to be suddenly divided into two halves or unequally divided blocks, and different areas show completely different species or colors, with great contrast.

18. Darkwing {Special Variation} Some of the birds are similar to the bright-bodied species, but their wings are all black, and the body has turned bright lemon yellow, which is extremely rare.

19. Melanistic Spangle is meaningless and is not included in the introduction list.

20. Special variation of curly hair type, no independent viability.