April 24, 2010
Budgerigar
![Budgerigars sharing a tangerine](https://cdn-0.itsnature.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/budgies-sharing-food-e1272097313568.jpg)
The Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) is a bird also known as a budgie or a parakeet of the Psittaciformes order, Psittacidae family, genus melopsittacus. Domesticated around the world as a common house pet, they are commonly found in the harsher, drier, inland environments in Australia for the past 5 million years. A Budgerigar sitting on a