A question that I am often asked is how to tell if a budgie is a male or a female.

Properly hand fed babies grow up a little more confident and a lot tamer to start with than a parent fed budgie and a hand fed male budgie will probably talk.

You have just brought your new baby Lovebird home. Once you put him in the nice new cage you bought, you are ready to play with him. But your little bird is afraid of you – what can you do?

You just can´t watch one of these little guys hopping or flitting back & forth as they sing their cheerful song and not break out into a smile.

Anthropomorphism is said to be the attribution of human characteristics, behavior or motivation to animals, inanimate objects or natural phenomena. Birds in captivity may exhibit certain of these "human" qualities. For my budgies, one of those qualities is LOYALTY to one another.

Lovebirds can be wonderful pets. In order for them to be wonderful pets though, they have to get a great start on life. A Lovebird breeder has quite a job ahead because these birds can be very unpredictable.

There are several different types of Parakeets. These birds have long tails and are generally some of the smaller birds in the parrot family.

Over the years, I have been taught by my birds that the most meaningful way to train them, er, I mean to be trained by them is through a philosophically-based technique that I call BIRD FOCUSED TRAINING.

You have just brought your new baby Budgie home. Once you put him in the nice new cage you bought, you are ready to play with him. But your little bird is afraid of you – what can you do?

There are nine different species of Lovebirds and they all originate in Africa except for the Madagascar Lovebird.