Thank you SO much!!
I think we are leaning towards one bird for now. We're still teetering on which bird to get...I'm getting more and more attached to the idea of a cockatiel the more I think about it.
What age should the bird be?? How young or old? I didn't ask too many questions at the pet stores because cockatiels weren't what I was looking at, but the budgies were a few months old. There is a cockatiel in the paper that is 7 months old. I haven't checked out breeders in the area yet, that's next on my list, along with checking out cockatiel books from the library 

