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definition
A species of small parakeet native to Australia and often kept as pets, Melopsittacus undulatus.
Examples of budgerigar in a Sentence
I found him in bed with a little green budgerigar sitting on his head!
The white is a blue colored budgerigar with a reduction in the color pigment and works in a similar way to the yellows.
Babies produced from this variety can only be a Dominant Pied or a normal budgerigar.
The original wild budgerigar known as a Light Green later developed Blues and varying shades of this color.
What cannot be taught is that natural eye for a good budgerigar.
In 1980/81, I had the pleasure of painting a new standard for the exhibition budgerigar, which is still in use today.
In the case of the color genes of interest to budgerigar breeders, the effects of most single color influencing genes is dramatic.
Attempts to naturalize that well-known Australian grass-parrakeet the budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) in England have so far proved abortive, and none of the species experimented with in Norfolk and Bedfordshire effected a settlement.