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Budgerigar 1 (20123571788)🦜

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SpeciesPsittaciformesPsittacidae
Birds

🦜Budgerigar

Melopsittacus undulatus (Shaw, 1805)

セキセイインコ（背黄青鸚哥）（Melopsittacus undulatus）は、鳥綱オウム目インコ科セキセイインコ属に分類される鳥。本種のみでセキセイインコ属を構成する。

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/2,140th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
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
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Budgerigar

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.03 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.03 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Tail length
0.09 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.1 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.01 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.01 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
21 years
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data quality: high

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
18 days
AnAge
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data quality: high

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 5
AnAge
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data quality: high

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Herbivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Woodland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Generalist
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0 Laverage
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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.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPsittaciformes
  5. ›familyPsittacidae
  6. ›genusMelopsittacus
  7. ›speciesMelopsittacus undulatus
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderParrots · Psittaciformes
  4. genusMelopsittacus
All 11 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderParrots · Psittaciformes
  11. genusMelopsittacus
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Closest relative on this site
🦜 Kākāpō — last shared an ancestor ≈ 56 million years ago.
In other languages
andulka vlnkovaná (cs), Wellensittich (de), undulat (sv), นกหงส์หยก (th), بدجريقة (ar), вълнист папагал (bg) … and 28 more languages
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Budgerigar 1 (20123571788)Budgerigar 2 (20126026689)Budgerigar 2480
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