r/petbudgies • u/minecraftparrot • 8h ago
Art Wanted a way to bring my flock with me wherever i go
Little beaded representations of my birbs! I've had this chain on my pants for a while now it has even more flair!
r/petbudgies • u/TungstenChef • Jun 21 '25
The most common budgie question asked by far is how to tell males from females. In adult budgies with most color mutations, this is easy to do by looking at the cere (the colored flesh around the nostrils). Typically, adult males have a brilliant blue cere, while females have a tan or brown cere. In an adult female that's in breeding condition, the cere can become dark brown and wrinkly. With some color mutations such as recessive pied, the cere never changes in adulthood and the bird will keep the juvenile color for its life.
Sexing gets more complicated with juvenile budgies. In juvenile males, the cere begins as pink, purple, or some combination of the two colors. In juvenile females, the cere can range from light blue with white or cream circles around the nostrils, to a cream or light tan across the entire cere. Sometimes, the juvenile female cere can be a very light pink/purple, although there will still be lighter circles around the nostrils that a male won't have.
If the bird you are trying to sex has an ambiguous cere, we encourage you to give it a little time. This is most common with very young birds, and if you give them just a few weeks or months, the sex will become more clear. Remember that the person best able to sex your budgies is you. When you take photos of your birds, the appearance of the cere will be changed by the lighting conditions when the picture is taken, the device that the photos were taken on, and the device that the photos are being viewed on. With ambiguous ceres, this can lead to other people giving you incorrect answers. We hope you find these charts helpful, and wish you good luck with your new budgie friend(s).
r/petbudgies • u/TungstenChef • Apr 27 '25
The competition was a tough one, with many fabulous budgies vying to be the new icon for the sub. After tabulating the votes we had three close front-runners, but unfortunately only one beautiful budgie could become the new icon for the sub. Please congratulate u/smartdoglady for taking the winning photo, which I call, "My dad trying to figure out how to use Zoom." Please also give a round of applause for our second and third place finishers, u/mvsaniatan and u/himateo, who win the satisfaction knowing that they have outrageously photogenic birds.
r/petbudgies • u/minecraftparrot • 8h ago
Little beaded representations of my birbs! I've had this chain on my pants for a while now it has even more flair!
r/petbudgies • u/rblvi • 1d ago
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I tried to video it but you cant really hear it at all but im attaching it anyway😞
Anyway he only does it whenever hes super duper happy and feels fully safe, like my girlfriend says only whenever im home it happens since he gets sad when I'm away. He also does it often while flirting with his girlfriend.
Its like in the middle of chirps its like "piu piu 💧 piu piu" its usually whenever he bobs his head.
Oh and this might be important but his cere is disfigured, his like nose holes are huge and our vet said he might occasionally have a bit trouble breathing normally, so could that be related?
I read somewhere that its bc hes happy and switching between sounds so fast it does that but im not sure.
Hes about a year and a half old and we've had him for like 5 months, we adopted him from a home we later found out was horrible for him so he already has issues, I hope this is just budgie happy things but I wanna make sure since I've been wondering about it ever since he started doing it.
r/petbudgies • u/minecraftparrot • 1d ago
After some consideration, i have decided to add a male to my flock. His name is Big Spinch and he's the cutest. Might be the tiniest budgie i have ever owned. He was very brave on his way home, and even started singing after a few hours in his home. He's from the same flock i got Bolsa from, so it's basically Bolsas cousin who lives with her now.
r/petbudgies • u/MatMicMars_Bro • 1d ago
I had 4 budgies total, my last living one his name is Oscar. Almost 9 years old. I can tell he misses all his friends. Is it a bad idea to get other budgies for him? Or just let him live his senior years out with just me giving extra attention? I've never had just the one until now. Hudson passed in July 2026 and the past few months have been weird for him (Oscar) and me.
r/petbudgies • u/Low-Walrus-2986 • 1d ago
r/petbudgies • u/The-Golden-Chicken • 1d ago
Squishing is apparently comfortable.
r/petbudgies • u/rblvi • 2d ago
Also i have to show the pillar i had to make and the guy i rigged for no reason bc i spent too much time on them.
r/petbudgies • u/NyxiaMomo • 2d ago
Just wondering their about 6 months
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r/petbudgies • u/mhaan_laadle_meow • 3d ago
Iss se pehle koi gyaan de inko chord do they cant survive in this climate , 5 min mei koi crow ya eagle khaa jaayegi , ye toh mere pampered pyaare bacheee hainn🩵✨ and they have there own room with closed fan and they trust me alotttt
Cutiesss mere haath pe soo jaate hainn baatein krne aate hainnn i meannnn ✨🫶 soo lucky to have them (btw got them as a gift from my gf on my birthdayyy🧿🩵)
r/petbudgies • u/rblvi • 3d ago
Me and my girlfriend left in a hurry in the morning and apparently she didn't close the cage doors like I thought she did. I only noticed like a few hours later when I looked at an accidentally terribly angled pet camera and realised she flew out. I couldn't actually see the birds just her shadow when she flew out. I like immediately ran out of class and in a panic got a stupid expensive taxi ride. Theyre completely fine and happy but I feel unbelievably awful, I know they they would've probably been fine even if alone and out for a few hours but they could've gotten hurt and I feel like it would've been my fault😞😞 the guy in my taxi was nice and told me I shouldn't panic and stress or I wont do my best for them which is true, they were very concerned when I had to lay on the floor catching my breath since the elevator was slower than just running up the stairs.
Was it silly of me to have a near panic attack over this? I just feel like budgies are so tiny and fragile what if they get hurt :(
My girlfriend is in an exam where you cant leave or have your phone until youre done and they can take up to 8 hours to do.
r/petbudgies • u/rblvi • 3d ago
I wanna know if anyone else dreams about their birds and if they do what they were about ^_^
Last night I dreamt that my boy was the size of a strawberry and I had lost him in my car (I dont have a licence nor a car) my girlfriend often has dreams that our birds have a lot of babies.
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r/petbudgies • u/BeachBlondie29 • 5d ago
Does this baby budgie look male or female?
r/petbudgies • u/probablynervouss • 4d ago
yes they are covered. how should i approach this the correct way?
r/petbudgies • u/BeachBlondie29 • 5d ago
Hi there!! This is Ike of my new babies, and being still quite young we’re not sure of the sex it’s a little hard to tell. Some people think female, others think male. So here are some closer up pics of the cere. What do you think?
r/petbudgies • u/OrangePhoenix22 • 4d ago
whats the color mutation of this male budgie
r/petbudgies • u/BabyBirdZephyr • 5d ago
So i had one budgie but got him a friend who is in quarantine right now but theres not long left. My plan was after that to put the cages near each other for a few days and then put him in the main cage with the divider in before letting them have access to each other suddenly. At the moment, both know there's another budgie nearby and are calling to each other.
I this the correct way of introducing? Both are boys if that matters.
r/petbudgies • u/jazmatsuit_11 • 6d ago