Wild-Type Budgerigar

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  ThylacineAlive

• 10 Jan 2019

Budgerigar. September 19, 2018. Genuine wild-type birds from Australia itself. Evidently these are significantly harder to maintain than the common domestic variety.

 

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  birdsandbats

• 10 Jan 2019

I didn't know there were any outside Australia.

 

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  ThylacineAlive

• 10 Jan 2019

@birdsandbats There are a good few zoos with them in Europe. According to ztl Cologne, Frankfurt, Vogelpark Herborn, and Loro Parque also currently keep wild-type Budgies. I first saw them at Bristol Zoo in 2016, though they went out of them in 2017.

~Thylo

 

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  WhistlingKite24

• 10 Jan 2019

In Australia these wild-type budgies are generally called ‘Bush Budgerigars’.
I’ve kept them in the past.

 

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  giant_anteater

• 10 Jan 2019

@ThylacineAlive I believe that the flock at Hamerton are the ones you would have seen at Bristol.

 

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  ThylacineAlive

• 11 Jan 2019

@giant_anteater Huh, ztl agrees with you. I thought they'd been imported from Australia along with their other recent bird imports.

~Thylo

 

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  giant_anteater

• 11 Jan 2019

@ThylacineAlive Some might have come from Australia to boost the numbers maybe? I don’t know. But the first ones definitely came from Bristol.

Hamerton Zoo Park - Animal Park Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire

 

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  BushBudgie

• 27 May 2020

Does anyone know where the Zoo in Bristol got the Budgies from? The Hamerton Zoo said that the budgies have been imported from a German zoo. I would like to know which German zoo. Does anyone know anything accurate or can tell who knows more?
Unfortunately, the zoo in Bristol does not respond.

 

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  ThylacineAlive

• 28 May 2020

@BushBudgie So turns out Cologne Zoo in Germany imported them directly from Australia. They then sent some animals to Bristol, but when Bristol phased them out the entire flock was sent to Hamerton.

~Thylo

 

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  BushBudgie

• 30 Jun 2020

@ThylacineAlive bristol zoo told me in an email, that the budgies came from a german breeder. But they don't know who is the breeder?