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    Budgerigars Australia's gift to the World.

    Watching hundreds or even thousands of Budgies flying around a waterhole is one of my lasting memories of living out west as a child.

    Budgerigars: Australia’s colourful, clever and much-loved avian gift to the world - Australian Geographic
    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

    A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking

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    They are a fantastic little bird, cheeky, intelligent and great company. I used to breed them as a kid and was particularly enamored of the pied variants of the species aka blue with white wings. So much so that at 13 years old I had saved and purchased, supposedly cheap, a male from an uncle who bred them commercially. So over 50 years ago I paid $14.00 for it. Lot of dosh back then. It often crosses my mind to build another walk in aviary and populate it with budgies, Javan Finches and King Quail.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bob10 View Post
    Watching hundreds or even thousands of Budgies flying around a waterhole is one of my lasting memories of living out west as a child.

    Budgerigars: Australia’s colourful, clever and much-loved avian gift to the world - Australian Geographic
    I can remember seeing large flocks (murmuration) of wild budgerigars in the mid 1950's to the early 1960's over the grasslands nearby Deer Park, Victoria.
    Very memorable.
    A pity that all that grassland in the region has now become suburbia, with houses built boundary to boundary.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Collins View Post
    I can remember seeing large flocks (murmuration) of wild budgerigars in the mid 1950's to the early 1960's over the grasslands nearby Deer Park, Victoria.
    Very memorable.
    A pity that all that grassland in the region has now become suburbia, with houses built boundary to boundary.
    What a wonderfully descriptive word, murmuration, describes the flock to a T.
    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

    A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking

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