Budgerigars: Australia’s colourful, clever and much-loved avian gift to the world
A comprehensive history of Australia’s most well-known bird.
A comprehensive history of Australia’s most well-known bird.
Whether seen in flocks resembling large green tornadoes in central Australia, or in your home as a family pet, budgies are Australia’s most ubiquitous bird.
During the hot, dry summer months, Alice Springs is often beset by a beautiful plague – flocks of thousands of green budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) in search of increasingly scarce sources of water. Photographer Steven Pearce says that there was around 4000 birds congregating around the waterhole just after dawn.
UK-based photographer Paul Williams used Google Earth to find and photograph this “tornado” of budgies around a waterhole in outback Australia.
UK-based photographer Paul Williams used Google Earth to find and photograph these flocks of budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) near Alice Springs.
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