Comments on: “Happy Budgies” – wild budgerigar sounds promote wellbeing of pet birds

By: Elisabeth - Norway

Elisabeth - Norway — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:34:45 +0000

Hi! I bought ‘Happy Budgies’ yesterday night and played it for my little female budgie today. She was absolutely delighted to hear them, calling & chirping along and was very excited! A lot of fun for us both!

Thank you so much & keep up the good work!
Best regards from myself & Henrikke the budgie!

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:46:10 +0000

Hi! I just bought two blue budgies and they were terrified when I got them home. They sat together and didn’t move, didn’t eat, didn’t chirp at all so I was very worried about them. Then I started researching the sounds in google and came upon your website. I bought the album download, and all of a sudden my birds “came to life”. It was so cute and funny to see, they now felt like they were home. They started chirping and chatting away, explored their cage, ate and preened themselves. What a difference this album has made for me and my new little friends. Thank you so much for recording these albums!

By: Jose

Jose — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:06:45 +0000

hi,
i have a single male budgie around 8 months old who really is a great companion . unfortunately he has been alone for a few days as i went on vacation and when i returned i found that he was screeching a lot – his usual cute chirpiness had turned to screams ! this is something new for him and completely out of character . i think the loneliness got to him . do you have something that will calm him down ? i spent months training him to sing adorably and he’s more like a pet dog than a budgie – has an open cage all day , sits on my shoulder as i walk through the house , pecks at my fingers as i type , calls for me if i leave the room , and jumps around excitedly when i get home – so i really want to bring that back out of him . i really think the sounds of the other budgies will calm him (judging by the sample i tried) – but the link for the online store doesn’t seem to work . please could you re-link it or let me know the website , and also what you suggest could be done to stop the screaming ? a friend is having a similar issue after she left her budgie alone for the first time .
thanks very much .

By: Isabel

Isabel — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:48:26 +0000

I listen to the sound sample on your website and the recording is amazing! It is so delightful to hear this little birds, so often chirping in pet shops, as they interact with each other and fly freely in their homeland, without cages, but with lots of feathery friends instead. Although I think that because of their tiny size their life even in captivity can be happy, on condition that we provide them with plenty (and I really mean plenty!) space to fly, the most heart-breaking thought for me is, that people often keep them as single pets, without giving them a chance to interact with any other budgie believing, that human companionship is enough. I confess, that some time ago I was sharing such an opinion too (I kept a single cockatiel), but now, after I bought another male tiel, I can say with all my conviction, that this is not true! Now I see how much not only budgies, but also cockatiels need at least one companion of their own kind and how much I had wronged my older male by separating him from other tiels as a very young, although independent bird and keeping him almost two years in solitude. It is saddening, that after such a period of loneliness and more than a year together with his new friend, he still has got problems with interacting with the second parrot, but I believe their relations may improve, because they live together in one cage quite peacefully. I hope that by Your recording of wild budgerigars at least some owners of single budgies will understand, that in the wild these birds are always surrounded by other budgies and that their pets also deserve budgie companionship.

Keep up the good work!

By the way, as an owner of two cockatiels I would be grateful to find out one day about Your new CD entitled: “Happy cockatiels”.

By: mathew

mathew — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:53:15 +0000

“…the thought of these beautiful little birds in captivity is saddening.”

If it’s any consolation, our budgies have the run of the house during the day. They fly around, perch on the window ledges and watch what’s going on, climb the curtains, and so on.

By: Natalia

Natalia — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:06:51 +0000

Hello, I am playing the sample for my budgies and they are thrilled. I tried to click the link to download it but it said the “URL was not found”. Can you email me a link or let me know where I can go to get “Happy Budgies”?

Thank you!

Natalia

By: Megan

Megan — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:46:05 +0000

OH MY GOSH! The picture with thefive green budgies sitting in a circle on the branch is phenomenal! I have two budgies at home, which are actually sitting on the back of my computer chair. Male, 8 year old Perry who is blue, and Male 4 month year old Tweety who is green. I love them to bits, anyways, all your pictures are amazing >
Megan

By: Steve Saywell

Steve Saywell — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:47:48 +0000

I purchased “Happy Budgies” as a digital download several weeks back. ‘George’ , ‘Mildred’ , & ‘Maxine’ wish to pass on their thanks to Andrew and Sarah. ……. They love it !

By: sarah koschak

sarah koschak — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:24:05 +0000

Hi Terry,
Yes, a large flock of budgies is truly something special to behold. The best places we know to see them is N’Dhala Gorge in the MacDonnell Ranges (The Budgies on ‘Spirit of the Outback’ were recorded there). The Painted Desert on the Oodnadata and Birdsville tracks is where we recorded ‘Happy Budgies! I hope this helps. In both places they were present in large flocks and I reckon you would have luck all year round.

Good luck, even if you don’t get to see them I hope you will have a wonderful time looking.
All the best,
Sarah

By: terry osborne

terry osborne — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:35:23 +0000

One of my life long ambitions yet to be accomplished is to see a large flock of budgerigars in the wild. Could you please advise me where to go to see a flock of budgies in the wild. Your help and any suggestions would be appreciated.

Regards
Terry