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hi everyone. 4 months ago i bought 4 baby budgies and i absolutely adore them. I just wanted to connect with other ppl who have budgies. i have 4 boys. a cobalt pied recessive (Phoenix), a yellow pied dominant(Ammon), a normal coloured (Ryder), and one that is white, yellow, teal, green, and blue(all in a washed out way)(Ramses). Phoenix is the most affectionate and plays with my hair and finger. He is the only one so far who has had his wings grow back in and he loves to fly and dive bomb my head. Ammon is the heaviest of my boys and i'm not sure he'll ever be able to fly LOL. He's not fat just really heavy feeling when he steps on my finger compared to my other boys and he's really boxy in shape.
Hello again, mmfh.

We currently have four budgies. I have never been very good at the color classifications but I can describe them LOL. We have Hedwig (7yo), solid white coloring with red eyes, no hint of any other color. She is able to perch on your hand but doesn't really like to be held. She will nip and doesn't speak but will chirp out greetings etc. Then there is Lupin(3yo), he is a duller green with some yellow and of course black lines, barring. He is really skittish, likes to chirp in alarm when anyone is near and bites at anyone around. Then there is Buddy (8yo), he is an almost royal blue color with a small amount of white and then the black barring. He will perch on my hand, says hi sweetie, hi buddie and hi Tiki and makes this little squeaking barking sound. He will nip at times but is usually quite tame. Then there is Pigwidgeon (3yo), she is a really bright yellow with black barring, no green or other colors. She is skittish and will fly away but doesn't nip and if you are patient enough she will sit quietly on your hand. She also says Hi Tiki. To explain, Tiki is a quaker that used to be in the same room with them and Tiki will say over and over again, Tiki bird, say Hi Tiki, Hi Tiki LOL. So now the budgies say hi to him. He also says lots of other things but this was what the budgies picked up on.

LOL ur birds sound like characters! mine are all 4 months old and younger. they are the first birds i've ever owned besides finches. they all have such diverse personalities. whenever i am home they are out and they love to play. I do have a question, however, i know my birds are males....but only my "dominant male" has a blue cere. The other 2 males who are only a couple weeks younger usually sport white/blue ceres. Is this normal in non dominant males housed together?

You said that you "know" all your budgies are males, have they been DNA tested? I have seen and had males that the ceres are lighter or darker than the others but have also had females that will have odd colored ceres sometimes getting them confused with the males. In the rescue we have all the birds sexed whenever possible with their initial vet exam but we don't always do this on the smaller birds. It is however a definite way of sexing when one of your budgies with a bluish cere suddenly lays eggs, even though we and the vet were sure it was a male and there are no other birds in the same cage LOL! SO even though the coloration of ceres is about 98% accurate in sexing budgies like many other bird species it can sometimes turn out wrong.

So after rambling on for a while in answer to your question, I have seen male budgies with both lighter and brighter blue ceres, I haven't personally seen any with white but would imagine that it would depend at least in a small degree upon the birds overall color even in same sex birds.