🦜Budgerigar
The budgerigar, also known as the common parakeet, shell parakeet or budgie, is a small, long-tailed, seed-eating parrot native to Australia. Naturally, the species is green and yellow with black, scalloped markings on the nape, back, and wings. Budgies are bred in captivity with colouring of blues, whites, yellows, greys, and even with small crests. Juveniles and chicks are monomorphic, while adults are told apart by their cere colouring and their behaviour.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.
- Body mass
- 0.03 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 21 years
Everything we know about the Budgerigar
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.03 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 0.03 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Tail length0.09 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.1 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.01 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.01 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan21 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation18 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 5AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelHerbivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatWoodlandAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleGeneralistAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Budgerigar yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderPsittaciformes
- ›familyPsittacidae
- ›genusMelopsittacus
- ›speciesMelopsittacus undulatus
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderParrots · Psittaciformes
- genusMelopsittacus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- orderParrots · Psittaciformes
- genusMelopsittacus
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