Budgerigar
Amazing fact
Budgerigars remove the husks from seeds before eating them.
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Budgerigars remove the husks from seeds before eating them.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Budgerigar
- Scientific name
- Melopsittacus undulatus
- Japanese name
- セキセイインコ
- Group
- Birds
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- Family
- Psittacidae
- Genus
- Melopsittacus
It lives in large flocks, mainly in the fairly dry interior of Australia.
Wild budgerigars have a yellow forehead, a head striped yellow and black, and a blue-green tail.
It feeds on grass seeds on the ground. Heavy rain makes the grass grow, so it raises its young after the rains.
How the Budgerigar lives
Before sunrise, they preen and call in the trees. After sunrise, they fly to their feeding grounds. At midday or in extreme heat, they stay still in the shade. After sunset, they return to their roost to rest.
University of Michigan Animal Diversity WebBasic data
- Size
- 18–20 cm
- Weight
- average 30 g
- Active
- By day (diurnal)
- Diet
- Seeds of grasses and crop plants
- Range
- Australia
Where the Budgerigar has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- セキセイインコ
- 简体中文
- 虎皮鹦鹉
- 繁體中文
- 虎皮鸚鵡
- 한국어
- 사랑앵무
- Español
- Periquito
- Français
- Perruche ondulée
- Deutsch
- Wellensittich
- Português (Brasil)
- Periquito-australiano
- Italiano
- Parrocchetto ondulato
- हिन्दी
- बजरिगर तोता
- العربية
- البُدجَريقَة
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Burung kesturi
- Русский
- Волнистый попугайчик
- Türkçe
- Muhabbetkuşu
- ไทย
- นกหงส์หยก
- বাংলা
- বাজরিগর টিয়া
- اردو
- بجریگر
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web — Melopsittacus undulatusChecked: 2026-11-03
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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