Budgerigars
Overview
Gain a complete understanding of budgerigars (parakeets), combining biology, care, and a small Biblical element.
Requirements
1. Identify where budgerigars live in the wild.
2. Describe the appearance of a standard (wild) budgerigar.
3. Tell the story of how budgerigars came to be in Europe.
4. List the classification of budgerigars:
- a. by color mutation
- b. by marking pattern mutation
- c. by pied mutation
- d. rare mutations
5. Budgerigar care and housing conditions.
6. Budgerigar cages and its equipment.
7. How do you distinguish a female from a male?
8. What and how should you feed a budgerigar?
9. Characteristics of budgerigar vision.
10. How do you teach a budgerigar to talk?
11. How do you get a budgerigar to perch on your hand?
12. Find three verses in the Bible that mention birds.
Answer key & resources
Adapted from AY Honors/Budgerigars on the Pathfinder Wiki, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. See the original page's history for its authors.
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