Untrained birds can be unpredictable and sometimes ... but not all parakeets are budgies. Wild budgerigars are nomadic and spend their lives roaming from pasture to pasture. They travel incredibly ...

and as adult birds taken from the wild, they had the skills to survive where domesticated birds might not. In the late 1960s experts confirmed ring-necked parakeets were breeding in London and Kent, ...

Avian influenza is a respiratory virus that spreads quickly among birds, often through nasal and eye secretions and manure.

The zoo says the birds did not live in any of its aviaries, where the public shares a common space with birds.

Out of an abundance of caution, they will temporarily close the budgie exhibit and ... contact with the infected birds. “The bird flu is widespread in native, wild birds worldwide and can ...