Emily’s Reviews > Budgerigar: How a Brave, Chatty and Colourful Little Aussie Bird Stole the World's Heart > Status Update

What 'standard' though? Show budgies in no way resemble wild budgies, nor pet budgies, and they never were bred to serve any other purpose, so by what possible criteria has the standard come into being and what purpose can it serve? Normal showing had some function once that has since been hopelessly corrupted, but this never could have. This is peak worthless breeding without rhyme or reason.

Only a king could have his palace declared to be a zoo in order to import a wife for his parrot XD

Ah, so the stories of nocturnal predators snatching birds from their tree top perches being unnatural are absolute bullshit, then. So Australia has no better excuse to disallow cats than anybody else. Fascinating.

Okay, but, like, how hungry do you have to be to consider something the size of a budgie egg or chick to be "good eating?" They're so tiny, how much food value are they really providing?