budgerigar
noun
bud·ger·i·gar
ˈbə-jə-rē-ˌgär 
: a small Australian parrot (Melopsittacus undulatus) usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred under domestication in many colors
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Images of a budgerigar yawning (beginning to peak) Think about yawning.
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Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2017
Compared to, say, a parrot or a budgerigar, scrub jays—which are known for their long tail and beautiful blue coloring—are rarely domesticated, and don’t often interact with humans.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2021
Indeed, these plant lovers have the same emotional connection to flora that the Young and the Houseless used to have to fauna like beagles, Siamese cats, budgerigars and, in certain highly unusual cases, Rottweilers.
—Joe Queenan, WSJ, 26 July 2018
Meanwhile, Yoshimasa Seki of the Brain Science Institute in Japan and his team successfully trained budgerigars (parakeets) to peck an LED in time to a wide range of tempos.
—Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2016
Outback pools draw immense swarms of parakeets called budgerigars.
—John Pickrell, Science | AAAS, 11 Aug. 2017
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Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2017
Compared to, say, a parrot or a budgerigar, scrub jays—which are known for their long tail and beautiful blue coloring—are rarely domesticated, and don’t often interact with humans.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2021
Indeed, these plant lovers have the same emotional connection to flora that the Young and the Houseless used to have to fauna like beagles, Siamese cats, budgerigars and, in certain highly unusual cases, Rottweilers.
—Joe Queenan, WSJ, 26 July 2018
Meanwhile, Yoshimasa Seki of the Brain Science Institute in Japan and his team successfully trained budgerigars (parakeets) to peck an LED in time to a wide range of tempos.
—Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2016
Outback pools draw immense swarms of parakeets called budgerigars.
—John Pickrell, Science | AAAS, 11 Aug. 2017
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budgerigar
noun
bud·ger·i·gar
ˈbəj-(ə-)ri-ˌgär
: a small brightly colored Australian parrot often kept as a pet
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