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Tynes says locals in Washington rallied around her and Kedar's families to help them through the aftermath of the crash, including helping look after the couple's pets — Cullen’s turtle, Squirt; Kedar’s seven birds, called budgies — and her plants until they could be sent back to their relatives.
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Adam Carlson, Peoplemag, 5 July 2024
Macaws, budgies and other birds got quiet and roosted up high, which is nighttime behavior.
—Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024
Skilled breeders are artists in their own right, and the seemingly endless color range of budgies represents a veritable masterpiece of selective breeding.
—Harry Taylor, Harper's Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
The blue melanin is actually gray-black, and only appears blue because of the peculiar formation of the budgie’s feather barbs.
—Harry Taylor, Harper's Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
Occasionally a naturally occurring mutation removes one of the pigments to produce a yellow or blue budgie.
—Harry Taylor, Harper's Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
Maybe that will also suit your dog or your budgie.
—Stella Marie Hombach, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2022
But neither are our times fair to all those dogs named Karen, or that one budgie named Omicron Variant BA5.
—New York Times, 15 Sep. 2022
In fact, members of the parrot family, like budgies and cockatoos, are even better at syncing their movements to a beat than chimpanzees are, wrote Dr. Hattori.
—Susan Pinker, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2020
Adam Carlson, Peoplemag, 5 July 2024
Macaws, budgies and other birds got quiet and roosted up high, which is nighttime behavior.
—Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024
Skilled breeders are artists in their own right, and the seemingly endless color range of budgies represents a veritable masterpiece of selective breeding.
—Harry Taylor, Harper's Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
The blue melanin is actually gray-black, and only appears blue because of the peculiar formation of the budgie’s feather barbs.
—Harry Taylor, Harper's Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
Occasionally a naturally occurring mutation removes one of the pigments to produce a yellow or blue budgie.
—Harry Taylor, Harper's Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
Maybe that will also suit your dog or your budgie.
—Stella Marie Hombach, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2022
But neither are our times fair to all those dogs named Karen, or that one budgie named Omicron Variant BA5.
—New York Times, 15 Sep. 2022
In fact, members of the parrot family, like budgies and cockatoos, are even better at syncing their movements to a beat than chimpanzees are, wrote Dr. Hattori.
—Susan Pinker, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2020
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