Yes it's Bex's guide to the keeping of Budgerigars.
An A-Z guide!


ALARM-CALL - Adapted from the wild, this roughly translates to a high-pitched screeching sound at 6:30 in the morning, every morning, to show their affection for you.

BEAK - This part of the budgie is naturally adapted to shredding things, like wallpaper, precious plants, and skin. A budgie will also use it to give any important papers you leave out a beautiful "pinking shears" jagged effect.

BIRDBATH - A small plastic container holding water. A budgie will use the contents to test the colour fast qualities of your carpets, or turn it on its side and soak the bottom of the cage. Sod it, I suppose it did need a clean.

BIRD-TOY - A device, usually made of psychedelic coloured plastic and costing close to 3 quid, that is designed to repel budgies. They will avoid it at all costs.

CAT - An animal that will eliminate all household pests, like budgies, goldfish, lovebirds, cockatiels, macaws, etc. Also strongly attracted to the magnetic qualities of the cage.

CERE - The budgie's "nose", located on top of the beak, is useful in determining the bird's sex. If the cere is blue, the bird is male. If the cere is brown, the bird is female, unless the moon is crossing Scorpio or the month has an "a" in it, in which case the colours are reversed.

CURTAIN ROD - This long bar in a high place provides a convenient perch for your budgie while he shreds your curtains for you.

CUTTLE FISH - This bony skeleton is essential for minerals and calcium...also for shedding neurotically and throwing on the carpet.

EARS - Budgies don't have any of their own externally so out of spite they bite their owner's.

MAGNO-CAGIA - The magnetic force that repels a budgie from the door of a cage, making it involuntarily fly off your hand if you try to put it there.

MILLET - A small, hard seed made for a bird's entertainment. The budgie will scatter the millet on the floor all around the outside of the cage, and eat any important documents that you happen to leave out instead.

MIRROR - A device which projects the opposite force to MAGNO-CAGIA. Budgies will flock to mirrors, or any reflective surface, and attempt to feed it, mate with it, or release droppings on it. The amount of dirt the bird will leave varies directly with how expensive and hard-to-clean the mirror is.

MOLT - A few times a year, a budgie will drop most of its feathers just to watch you vacuum.

Which to be honest is mostly adapted from the witty Steven Hanov