Budgerigar numbers are set to explode for the third consecutive year in outback Central Australia, prompting a birdwatcher to call for a targeted tourism campaign to attract twitchers. Mark Carter, a ...

Owner Bruce Schuster has been breeding budgies since 1990 and now has 150 birds. “We always had budgies as a kid, and I guess I just got into it,” he said. Known simply as Ring 031, the bird showed a ...

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This article is part of the “Who would win?” series, where wildlife experts dream up hypothetical battles between animals (all in the name of science). Who would have thought the budgerigar, Australia ...