Sunflower

Bird ID: 7295
Species: Parakeet
Sex: Female
Sub-Species: Standard Budgie
Adopted on 2022-04-11
Hi, I`m Sunflower, and I came to Mickaboo in March 2022 after being found near the Rotary Nature Center at Lake Merritt. I`m a tiny, very young bird with traces of stripes still on my forehead and no white line around my black eyes. I`m really quiet, just humming a little. I will eat from a hand. I ike greens, pellets, and seeds (of course!). I will hop on a stick but just as quickly hop off. I`m street-wise and a good flyer since I was in the wild. I might be young enough to train in YOUR forever home??
In nature, parakeets (budgerigars) live in large flocks. A single bird in a cage spends much of his/her life being lonely because humans have things they must do that take them away. We therefore will only adopt a single parakeet to a household if there is already at least one parakeet living there. Otherwise, parakeets must be adopted in groups of two or more.