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• n  small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors

• The boy heads home with a budgie in a cage, the sympathetic camera charting every hop, skip and jump through reflections in puddles along the way.
• But the injection method was costly and impractical for most budgie owners.

• budgerigar
• budgereegah
• budgerygah
• grass parakeet
• lovebird
• shell parakeet
• Melopsittacus undulatus

News & Articles

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• “The Saturday Boy” (YA review)
  “The Saturday Boy” is the nickname pinned on Derek, who is young enough to prefer cartoons and chocolate cereal. His idea of revenge is taping a bug inside someone’s underwear. The detested nickname– invented by a character whose moniker is Budgie, so go figure — originated when Budgie saw Derek waiting for the school bus [...]The post “The Saturday Boy” ...
  July 24, 2013 - Denver Post

Quotes

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• Peter Hook in Pitchforkmedia.com
  Moving on, then, Hook mentions an incident at a recent DJ gig: "some kid came up and gave me a hug and said 'sorry to hear about new order hooky' i was really touched its like your budgie dyin!"
• Steve Hooker in Daily Telegraph
  It was pretty shocking when it happened because it all happened really quickly,Hooker told Confidential yesterday. "There was a bit of a glass ledge and Budgie avoided that with the poles and he was trying to do the right thing by turning...
• Jackiey Budden in hellomagazine.com
  One of the butterflies is tiny and the other is big and I know it is Budgie playing with her just as he did when she was a little girl,says Jackiey, who sleeps with Jade's hospital gown under her pillow.