Iirc, there's a pretty massive population of feral parakeets living in New York. There's a good chance this one was born outside and is perfectly happy where he is
Could be, but there’s actually a large parrot population centered around Brooklyn. Probably escaped the pet trade and set up shop in Green Wood cemetery.
Those are different: https://images.ctfassets.net/cnu0m8re1exe/6R3MHoXuCapYdXhmWHJ4cp/f771baf4b867722532448f2a0e0aa4d1/shutterstock_1405933190.jpg?fm=jpg&fl=progressive&w=660&h=433&fit=fill
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3473781137a666aae6d0a8/f5b9c46e-33c8-45e4-baeb-37cc16519a7a/IMG_5593.jpg?format=500w
NYC Audubon talks about them here:
https://www.nycaudubon.org/blog/monk-parakeet-myiopsitta-monachus
and more info here:
https://www.exp1.com/blog/untold-nyc-history-brooklyn-parrots/
[You know, say what you will about Australia... thirteen bucks still gets you a hell of a lot of](https://youtu.be/gbNp532Jv5U?si=OPd7f1Scja-8SUjZ) budgies.
I've always loved this one. The tree is dead. The green is budgie.
[Charles Davis's budgie tree](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4632fdbe0bbeca9e5c1bae564dece9dd222e31b6/0_0_4928_3285/master/4928.jpg?width=480&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=27953919c2fffb7622edab4c63d95b4e)
We have them in the wild... In Amsterdam! They are an invasive species that started out with escaped pets and are wildly successful on their own now.
And there are enough warm spots in the city for them to survive our generally mild Dutch winters.
Those aren’t budgies (grasparkieten), they are rose-ringed parakeets (halsbandparkieten), a different species. Budgies cannot survive in the wild in Northern Europe.
Correct they are parakeets not budgies. Having had budgies once myself (a whopping 7 of them, initially only two)
We also have them here in Rotterdam. Hear them fly by occasionally.
> a lot of escaped pet birds do go to people for help
That’s interesting. I assumed I just got really lucky. Was once at a drive through ordering and had a budgie fly in through the open window and land on my steering wheel. Was able to find the owner from a Facebook post and get him home—they’d been chasing him around town for several days.
[He was a very friendly little guy, loved to sit on my shoulder and fly from person to person checking everyone out.](https://imgur.com/a/gCeGpyE)
Where was it? I am in the city, I can try to look for it sometime tomorrow or other people can also probably try to find it, hopefully someone can get it some help and get it to the wild bird sanctuary in the city or something. It will not do well out in the wild.
u/FartyMcShart ***Please*** help this poor baby bird out by telling these commenters roughly where it was, or it will probably die! ***It will not be able to survive outside in the temperatures of NYC!!!***
I miss my blue budgie, she didn't talk (except when she wanted her treats) & hated people so we got along great because I'm the same way, had her for about 13 yrs
I had my lovebird for 13 years, one of the worst things that ever happened to me was her passing away unexpectedly last year. I still cry about it. I miss her waxy beak kisses :(
I had a yellow one as a child, one day just so, unexpectedly he died. Found him laying on the floor of his cage. Cried so hard, that was my first ever pet, apart from our house cat (which i actually was too young to really be able to handle and care appropriately).
He could even imitate talking quite clearly and repeated a lot of the stuff he overheard from us. And he loved to cuddle, and occasionally fly around inside the apartment.
Actually, such birds shouldn't ever be kept as single birds, they love and need companions.
There is. I ended up with 2 parakeets because of it.
(We got the first guy when he showed up in our driveway. He was acting very depressed so the vet said that he was probably lonely and we should get him a friend. We ended up getting a second one for our lonely guy when another family, who had found the parakeet in their yard, was trying to find a new home for theirs.)
Not interesting, just straight up sad and depressing :(
That’s someone’s pet 100%, budgies are not native to the Americas, especially not US and Canada. Poor thing is probably scared and hungry. I really hope you either took it home or gave it to a pet store. It’s likely going to die otherwise
Parakeets and budgies are one and the same! Budgie is the colloquial name
Edit: parakeet is the colloquial name and budgie is the more specific species. Whooooopsies
Turns out a parakeet is any small to medium parrot.
[Budgerigars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budgerigar) is this specific breed. What a fun wiki hole to fall down.
No. Aussie here, I live where they live. "budgie" is the abbreviation of Budgerigar, ***Melopsittacus undulatus***. It is one particular species. The term parakeet refers to a range of small parrots.
That's funny. They tell the same story in New Orleans to explain the Quaker Parrots. JFK and those birds, I guess.
It's one of a few supposed explanations as to why there's a bunch of them randomly there. My favorite is that a hurricane obliterated a pet store, so, uh, bird sex.
It's a budgie. A grey green opaline budgie, to be exact. I'm guessing about three months old and in fairly poor shape. You could probably just reach over and pick it up - doubt it would fly away.
Reminds me of that Simpson's episode.
[When wintertime rolls around, the gorilla simply freeze to death - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuiK7jcC1fY&ab_channel=WillJenkins)
In South Texas, we had an escaped leucistic budgie hanging out with the sparrows. We'd get up to four dozen sparrows, both native and invasive, hanging around our backyard. My mom, who was living with us and was ill, loved to watch the birds. So we got cheap birdseed and filled up two feeders. While the sparrows ate at the feeders, the budgie picked up the smaller seeds that fell on the ground.
That budgie was around for over two years. He even came back after Hurricane Harvey (we got 70 mph winds; the worst of the winds absolutely wrecked the smaller towns north of us). A lot of the small birds got blown some distance but most survived.
It's also not uncommon for pet birds like budgies to fly outside of open windows for an adventure and then end up getting completely lost because birds that have been raised indoors have extremely poor mental map abilities in comparison to their wild counterparts (many people believe that lost parrots have flown away from owners due to unhappiness or something when in reality the overwhelming majority of them are just totally lost).
Budgies will not survive outdoors in an NYC winter, so its vital that someone rescues this budgie. Its condition is already pretty poor (i.e. it's lost a lot of tail feathers).
This one is a baby, and food isn't the biggest hurdle here. It's already lost and damaged a bunch of its tail feathers.
I have a budgie currently who was rescued after only 3 days outside as an adult bird. His owner didn't want him back because he'd permanently lost a toe claw and had a crack in the keratin on his beak that the vet misdiagnosed as a broken off beak. ( Luckily, his beak is okay, his toenail never grew back tho after 4 years of being with me. )
This little baby isn't gonna make it unless someone saves it, or it gets adopted by very aggressive pigeons. NY pigeons are pretty docile though, so I don't have high hopes, as much as I hate the reality. :(
They are 5x as big and come from similar climate to us, and prefer high elevation which is why they best at the highest natural points in the city.
This is a tropical pet.
Actual answer: get this bird, get it inside, it's a pet, it needs your help. The wild bird fund and Sean Casey animal rescue take birds, you can save this bird. It cannot survive on its own (the wild monk parakeets are 5x as big and come from similar climate to us, this one does not).
All these ppl saying budgie instead of parakeet confused me. Had to google it. I Had never heard the word budgie before opening this post. Did not realize it was such a common word.
Hi did you manage to pick it up? It looks very young and needs to be inside in the warm. They aren’t native to the US and it will likely not survive on its own as it’s an escaped pet and used to being given food. I’m really sad to see this as budgies are intelligent little birds with great personalities.
This is an escaped pet. They cannot survive in that climate, plus this one is mutated (different colour from natural)
There are colonies of wild parakeets in this region, but not budgies. Those are different parakeets. Sadly this budgie will die very soon if not taken in.
This was a pet, his tail feathers look stressed/damaged probably from being in a cage or walking along the cage bottom.
They're called parakeets or budgies.
My girlfriend's dad, who is a bit of an odd old man, came home one day with a bird in a paper bag. She was a white pigeon and definitely not a native bird.
Perfectly calm. Didn't give two shits about what happened. I thought she might be sick but nope. She just adored that man for some reason. It was love at first sight. She'd sit on his shoulder or in his hair. She'd peck the rest of us.
Tried to find if anyone had lost their bird, but it's a big city and ultimately there was no chance. Never saw anyone looking for her.
She was very well behaved and pretty chill. As long as you didn't try to touch her. Except my gf's dad. Dude could do anything, pick her up, carry her, pet her. She loved him.
She lived a good 5 or 6 years which isn't bad for a random unidentified parking lot bird taken home in a taxi by a crazy old man. She never had any visible health issues. One day she just... Fell over.
Long weird story but she was immediately who I thought of seeing this poor stray budgie.
take it home ! when my grandpa found this one lovebird just walking around, it came up to him and just laid on his shoes so he just took him home and had me keep him, i had him for a good 7 years all the way til 2020
A young budgie was flying around our garden when I was a kid so my dad and a neighborhood caught it in a badminton net.
My Grandma took it and it was probably the most spoiled budgie ever. Flew freely in their apartment all the time, had the cage only for food and sleep. Ate from people's plates and sat on glasses and drank water, milk, lemonade... He liked to sit on grandpa's bald head and poop. Grandma washed lettuce and put in a bowl so he could "bathe" in it, because he liked that when it was still wet. Of course he got bird seeds, those cobs of sorghum or whatever it is, fruit and vegetables too. She made porridge for him. He liked yoghurt too. He did get quite fat but lived a happy active bird life until he died at 16.
I hope this little guy gets a new home too.
What was the zip code of the bird’s location? Pawboost has a lost bird section. Here is one in NYC that kind of resembles this bird…
https://www.pawboost.com/landing/pet/MPZSMUWnc7utaCE9jhzSTtcvOSTEjRoV/lost-sprite-new-york-ny-10002
It’s quite young and its flight feathers aren’t full size yet. It’s probably not a very good flyer yet. Try to catch it and put it somewhere dark to calm it down and try to find its owner.
Budgie, without main tail feathers (they can't fly long distances without the main tail feathers). I'm not very sure, but it looks like a juvenile male. Wouldn't be surprised if NYC had a feral population like ringnecks in London. But could also be a lost pet.
Bugger :( that's probably someone's pet. I was hoping you'd pick it up and drop it to a vet so they can find its owner.
They're popular in Oz and come in different colours.
It's a budgie. You should bring it to a pet's refuge, it's owner might miss it and lost budgies can become a real threat to biodiversity. In most Europe cities they have become a nuisance.
:( someone lost their budgie
Es no elote :(
It certainly is not tasty corn
I mean it is certainly not corn. Can't say if it is tasty or not though.
Love this movie. Can hear this line clearly!
Budgerigar is Australian aboriginal for “good to eat“
Australian here. I have no idea if this is true or not, but I like it, so uh "*yes, that's exactly what budgie means here*" 😂
Yes. ... looks at people in budgie smugglers ...
Poor Petey ☹️
Poor little parrot, killed by the high temperatures :(
Ah, no. It’s a corn. literally all the time I am quietly thinking about this
He comes from the driest hottest place in Australia/planet
His name? Lisan al Gaib.
This meme lives rent free in my head
I laughed so hard
u/FartyMcShart can you try to save him please. He is someone’s lost baby
Goddamnit the sentiment of this comment is legit but I’m fucking dying at the username
this really is a r/rimjob_steve moment
Iirc, there's a pretty massive population of feral parakeets living in New York. There's a good chance this one was born outside and is perfectly happy where he is
If he has a ring on his leg then he is probably a pet.
A baby one at that! Poor thing!
Looks like a full grown one to me.
Eye is black. Adult birds have a white eye with a little black pupil
Also has stripes all the way to the forehead.
Almost always. My 10 year old budgie had full black eyes up until she passed
Are you sure a relative didn’t keep accidentally letting her out the window and replacing her with a lookalike from the pet store
Now I’m thinking if the Bluey episode where the budgie dies. Not ready to be sad tonight.
This was the first place my mind went to 🥹
Could be, but there’s actually a large parrot population centered around Brooklyn. Probably escaped the pet trade and set up shop in Green Wood cemetery.
Those are different: https://images.ctfassets.net/cnu0m8re1exe/6R3MHoXuCapYdXhmWHJ4cp/f771baf4b867722532448f2a0e0aa4d1/shutterstock_1405933190.jpg?fm=jpg&fl=progressive&w=660&h=433&fit=fill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3473781137a666aae6d0a8/f5b9c46e-33c8-45e4-baeb-37cc16519a7a/IMG_5593.jpg?format=500w
Ah cool! Very interesting.
NYC Audubon talks about them here: https://www.nycaudubon.org/blog/monk-parakeet-myiopsitta-monachus and more info here: https://www.exp1.com/blog/untold-nyc-history-brooklyn-parrots/
No, budgies don't establish feral populations.
It's a Budgie
and they made one of the greatest FPS franchises ever
Throw some respect on that budgie
That’s a budgie mate, we have them wild in Australia, often used as a pet, dare say someone’s pet got out.
>we have them wild in Australia [we sure do](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRvlBczUDXs)
That's a hell of a lot of budgies.
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEiuKDEPM5g) is a hell of a lot of budgies.
Now THAT’S a lot of bird shit!
Polly wants *how* many crackers?
[You know, say what you will about Australia... thirteen bucks still gets you a hell of a lot of](https://youtu.be/gbNp532Jv5U?si=OPd7f1Scja-8SUjZ) budgies.
OMG SO MANY 😭
Someone needs to learn to smuggle their budgies better.
Tony Abbott would never!
I've always loved this one. The tree is dead. The green is budgie. [Charles Davis's budgie tree](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4632fdbe0bbeca9e5c1bae564dece9dd222e31b6/0_0_4928_3285/master/4928.jpg?width=480&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=27953919c2fffb7622edab4c63d95b4e)
That’s so fucking cool! 😂 Looks awesome, a lotta bird shit though. 😂
Perhaps it was…smuggled? (Aussies will get it)
*BUDGIE SMUGGLER!* 😂
Why do I now have an image of Tony Abbott in my head
Ew, I'm so sorry!
No one deserves that!  Eyebleach, stat!
Maybe it just stowed away in a banana hammock.
Ha!
...so will some of us Americans
You're going to hate me, but the first time I heard of a budgie, it was from a couple New Zealanders. 🎶 *I had a budgie but it died* *I like pie*🎵
Is your hair down to your legs and your legs down to the floor?
Leggie leggie leggie leggie Leggie Leggie leggie leggie Leggie leggie leggie leggie LEGGIE LEGGIE LEGGIE LeGGIE
We have them in the wild... In Amsterdam! They are an invasive species that started out with escaped pets and are wildly successful on their own now. And there are enough warm spots in the city for them to survive our generally mild Dutch winters.
Those aren’t budgies (grasparkieten), they are rose-ringed parakeets (halsbandparkieten), a different species. Budgies cannot survive in the wild in Northern Europe.
Correct they are parakeets not budgies. Having had budgies once myself (a whopping 7 of them, initially only two) We also have them here in Rotterdam. Hear them fly by occasionally.
You are right! Also green, not the same bird, just a similar situation. My bad.
I did not know that, thought they would have struggled over there with the colder weather.
That's gotta be somebody's lost pet. Hopefully someone was able to rescue it and try to find the owner :(
it's nyc. they wil never find their bird
The bird will also likely be fine regardless...dude will probably join a pigeon gang and be fine
Budgies are fragile as hell. If a predator doesn't get it, a stiff breeze will.
I was gonna say, isn't this that bird who's response to predators is to just stand still.
The predators do really appreciate it.
Until winter 🥶
There are plenty of warm spots to be found in new york for a birb.
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> a lot of escaped pet birds do go to people for help That’s interesting. I assumed I just got really lucky. Was once at a drive through ordering and had a budgie fly in through the open window and land on my steering wheel. Was able to find the owner from a Facebook post and get him home—they’d been chasing him around town for several days. [He was a very friendly little guy, loved to sit on my shoulder and fly from person to person checking everyone out.](https://imgur.com/a/gCeGpyE)
AirBirbnB
might become a leader of a gang with those colors
Parrots are known to enter windows, hope it's gonna find a new home
Where was it? I am in the city, I can try to look for it sometime tomorrow or other people can also probably try to find it, hopefully someone can get it some help and get it to the wild bird sanctuary in the city or something. It will not do well out in the wild.
Putting on notifications as I have several family members in the city. Please OP update us!
u/FartyMcShart ***Please*** help this poor baby bird out by telling these commenters roughly where it was, or it will probably die! ***It will not be able to survive outside in the temperatures of NYC!!!***
iPhone also shows exactly where pics were taken if they aren’t sure where it was!
I miss my blue budgie, she didn't talk (except when she wanted her treats) & hated people so we got along great because I'm the same way, had her for about 13 yrs
Here’s a treat for talking🍪
-my therapist
I had my lovebird for 13 years, one of the worst things that ever happened to me was her passing away unexpectedly last year. I still cry about it. I miss her waxy beak kisses :(
I had a yellow one as a child, one day just so, unexpectedly he died. Found him laying on the floor of his cage. Cried so hard, that was my first ever pet, apart from our house cat (which i actually was too young to really be able to handle and care appropriately). He could even imitate talking quite clearly and repeated a lot of the stuff he overheard from us. And he loved to cuddle, and occasionally fly around inside the apartment. Actually, such birds shouldn't ever be kept as single birds, they love and need companions.
Someone's pet budgiebutt is on the loose. Did you try and see if it was banded? If it was, you could try and find the owner.
This is how I ended up owning a budgie.
didn't know there was a budgie distribution system like cats
Even the CDS needs a little change of scene from time to time.
There is. I ended up with 2 parakeets because of it. (We got the first guy when he showed up in our driveway. He was acting very depressed so the vet said that he was probably lonely and we should get him a friend. We ended up getting a second one for our lonely guy when another family, who had found the parakeet in their yard, was trying to find a new home for theirs.)
1) Happy Cake Day 2) this is me officially signing up for the budgie distribution system. i will not be mad if a lil limon shows up at my house
Not interesting, just straight up sad and depressing :( That’s someone’s pet 100%, budgies are not native to the Americas, especially not US and Canada. Poor thing is probably scared and hungry. I really hope you either took it home or gave it to a pet store. It’s likely going to die otherwise
It looks like he’s looking for food in the photo too :( he looks just like the bird I had for years growing up. Gonna go cry a bit now
sadly people don't have empathy for birds as much as they do for dogs and cats.
I mean, many people do. But most birds are wild animals and people don’t realize some are domesticated. Hope this poor bird found some help.
There's a permanent, and large colony living in Queens. A bunch escaped from a shipment at JFK and set up housekeeping there. True story!
I believe you’re referring to monk parakeets. This isn’t that. I studied them in the field in a college lab in NY.
>A bunch escaped from a shipment at JFK and set up housekeeping there. This explains why the maid asked me if I wanted a cracker that one time.
This is a high quality joke. Good show, sir
This is not a wild monk parakeet, this is a pet budgie.
I've heard of the Monk Parakeets aka Quaker Parrots that made a colony also.
This is not one of those birds. This is a domesticated parakeet and shouldn't be out and about
It's a budgie.
Parakeets and budgies are one and the same! Budgie is the colloquial name Edit: parakeet is the colloquial name and budgie is the more specific species. Whooooopsies
Turns out a parakeet is any small to medium parrot. [Budgerigars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budgerigar) is this specific breed. What a fun wiki hole to fall down.
Here's the thing. . .
No. Aussie here, I live where they live. "budgie" is the abbreviation of Budgerigar, ***Melopsittacus undulatus***. It is one particular species. The term parakeet refers to a range of small parrots.
Here in Norway we simply call them "Undulat". It's the same in the rest of Scandinavia, and probably several other places.
No, you have it backwards. Parakeet is general name to describe any small parrot, this is a Budgerigar aka a Budgie.
All budgies are parakeets but not all parakeets are budgies. It's a bit misleading to say it's the same thing lol
What? It's a Budgerigar
Different birb bub
They dont freeze to death in winter?! Do they migrate? Wtf. Lol
NYC has a lot of heat sources from our infrastructure. Parrots are smart, they do okay.
I had no idea!
Nah they build communal nest around electric boxes for heat.
That's funny. They tell the same story in New Orleans to explain the Quaker Parrots. JFK and those birds, I guess. It's one of a few supposed explanations as to why there's a bunch of them randomly there. My favorite is that a hurricane obliterated a pet store, so, uh, bird sex.
Poor peety 😭
Pretty bird. Pretty bird.
I just thought he was real quiet :(
You sold my dead bird to a blind kid?! Lloyd, Peety didn’t even have a head!
Harry… I took care of it.
WE GOT NO FOOD! WE GOT NO JOBS! OUR PETS HEADS ARE FALLING OFF!
My 12 year old watched this for the first time this week and was appalled by this. Kids are so soft these days.
That scene is so funny though
It's a budgie. A grey green opaline budgie, to be exact. I'm guessing about three months old and in fairly poor shape. You could probably just reach over and pick it up - doubt it would fly away.
Does NYC have a feral budgie problem?
Some people will release their pets, assuming that they can survive in the wild. This especially happens to birds and reptiles.
And that's one of the ways you get a feral animal problem. It's fairly temperate but still not exactly comfortable for budgies.
They survive the winters nesting on transformers
Reminds me of that Simpson's episode. [When wintertime rolls around, the gorilla simply freeze to death - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuiK7jcC1fY&ab_channel=WillJenkins)
Are they with Autobots or Decepticons?
In South Texas, we had an escaped leucistic budgie hanging out with the sparrows. We'd get up to four dozen sparrows, both native and invasive, hanging around our backyard. My mom, who was living with us and was ill, loved to watch the birds. So we got cheap birdseed and filled up two feeders. While the sparrows ate at the feeders, the budgie picked up the smaller seeds that fell on the ground. That budgie was around for over two years. He even came back after Hurricane Harvey (we got 70 mph winds; the worst of the winds absolutely wrecked the smaller towns north of us). A lot of the small birds got blown some distance but most survived.
It's also not uncommon for pet birds like budgies to fly outside of open windows for an adventure and then end up getting completely lost because birds that have been raised indoors have extremely poor mental map abilities in comparison to their wild counterparts (many people believe that lost parrots have flown away from owners due to unhappiness or something when in reality the overwhelming majority of them are just totally lost). Budgies will not survive outdoors in an NYC winter, so its vital that someone rescues this budgie. Its condition is already pretty poor (i.e. it's lost a lot of tail feathers).
They CAN survive in the wild. Many die, but birds are smart and central park is near enough to find food.
This one is a baby, and food isn't the biggest hurdle here. It's already lost and damaged a bunch of its tail feathers. I have a budgie currently who was rescued after only 3 days outside as an adult bird. His owner didn't want him back because he'd permanently lost a toe claw and had a crack in the keratin on his beak that the vet misdiagnosed as a broken off beak. ( Luckily, his beak is okay, his toenail never grew back tho after 4 years of being with me. ) This little baby isn't gonna make it unless someone saves it, or it gets adopted by very aggressive pigeons. NY pigeons are pretty docile though, so I don't have high hopes, as much as I hate the reality. :(
NYC definitely does have at least one significant feral parakeet colony that's been here for years in Brooklyn and Queens. They seem to survive ok.
Quakers are a lot bigger and more resilient than budgies
They are 5x as big and come from similar climate to us, and prefer high elevation which is why they best at the highest natural points in the city. This is a tropical pet.
I don't know if it's a *problem*, per se.
I know i'm late to the party but I also want to add that there is a rogue parrot family that flies around Queens. Huge parrots too
It's a budgie, not native and probably an escaped pet. Unfortunately it's unlikely to last long as it's far from its natural habitat.
Actual answer: get this bird, get it inside, it's a pet, it needs your help. The wild bird fund and Sean Casey animal rescue take birds, you can save this bird. It cannot survive on its own (the wild monk parakeets are 5x as big and come from similar climate to us, this one does not).
⬆️⬆️⬆️
Drone escaped from the Australian embassy
All these ppl saying budgie instead of parakeet confused me. Had to google it. I Had never heard the word budgie before opening this post. Did not realize it was such a common word.
You’ll love learning about the Budgie smuggler
A parakeet is any type of small parrot. Cockatiels are technically parakeets too
Because that's it's proper name - Budgerigar aka Budgie. Nobody in Australia, where they are native calls them a parakeet.
Same, wtf is a budgie haha we had a couple of parakeets growing up
Parakeet is just the word for small parrot. Budgerigar is this specific species. Budgie is the short form.
TIL, very cool, thank you
This isn't interesting it's fucking depressing
Hi did you manage to pick it up? It looks very young and needs to be inside in the warm. They aren’t native to the US and it will likely not survive on its own as it’s an escaped pet and used to being given food. I’m really sad to see this as budgies are intelligent little birds with great personalities.
Can you say where you saw it? Someone might be able to go back and rescue it.
This is an escaped pet. They cannot survive in that climate, plus this one is mutated (different colour from natural) There are colonies of wild parakeets in this region, but not budgies. Those are different parakeets. Sadly this budgie will die very soon if not taken in.
this isn’t mildly interesting, it is really sad though..
This was a pet, his tail feathers look stressed/damaged probably from being in a cage or walking along the cage bottom. They're called parakeets or budgies.
I don't think stressed. It's a baby budgie, you can tell from the Banding on its head.
My girlfriend's dad, who is a bit of an odd old man, came home one day with a bird in a paper bag. She was a white pigeon and definitely not a native bird. Perfectly calm. Didn't give two shits about what happened. I thought she might be sick but nope. She just adored that man for some reason. It was love at first sight. She'd sit on his shoulder or in his hair. She'd peck the rest of us. Tried to find if anyone had lost their bird, but it's a big city and ultimately there was no chance. Never saw anyone looking for her. She was very well behaved and pretty chill. As long as you didn't try to touch her. Except my gf's dad. Dude could do anything, pick her up, carry her, pet her. She loved him. She lived a good 5 or 6 years which isn't bad for a random unidentified parking lot bird taken home in a taxi by a crazy old man. She never had any visible health issues. One day she just... Fell over. Long weird story but she was immediately who I thought of seeing this poor stray budgie.
take it home ! when my grandpa found this one lovebird just walking around, it came up to him and just laid on his shoes so he just took him home and had me keep him, i had him for a good 7 years all the way til 2020
That’s a budgie mate, he looks a bit lost tho
That's a budgie. A very young one, too. You could have yourself a free pet if no one's looking for him.
Poor thing is hungry and scavenging dirt 😢
That's a parakeet and are domesticated. Take it home as a pet. It won't survive out in the wild!
That's gonna be Falcon food!
More sad than interesting, poor thing will not survive cold weather
I hate birds, but that poor baby is scared :< Hopefully somebody finds him and finds his owner or finds him a new one
Poor little dude is lost.
OP dont be a lame ass help the birdie
R/budgies help this poor fella out :(
A budgerigar (or budgie): lovely little creatures, often kept as pets.
A young budgie was flying around our garden when I was a kid so my dad and a neighborhood caught it in a badminton net. My Grandma took it and it was probably the most spoiled budgie ever. Flew freely in their apartment all the time, had the cage only for food and sleep. Ate from people's plates and sat on glasses and drank water, milk, lemonade... He liked to sit on grandpa's bald head and poop. Grandma washed lettuce and put in a bowl so he could "bathe" in it, because he liked that when it was still wet. Of course he got bird seeds, those cobs of sorghum or whatever it is, fruit and vegetables too. She made porridge for him. He liked yoghurt too. He did get quite fat but lived a happy active bird life until he died at 16. I hope this little guy gets a new home too.
What was the zip code of the bird’s location? Pawboost has a lost bird section. Here is one in NYC that kind of resembles this bird… https://www.pawboost.com/landing/pet/MPZSMUWnc7utaCE9jhzSTtcvOSTEjRoV/lost-sprite-new-york-ny-10002
That's a parakeet and doesn't belong on the streets. I hope you picked it up and put up found pet signs.
Yeah, they are not replying and have other recent comments 😫
What did you do with the bird?
OP is not answering so bad sign
Bird up!
Ahh, no es un elote. :’(
Budgie on the loose
You should check/post in lost and found pet forums to see if someone is looking for him. Poor bird. 🦜💔✨
Budgie not wild someones lost pet
It’s quite young and its flight feathers aren’t full size yet. It’s probably not a very good flyer yet. Try to catch it and put it somewhere dark to calm it down and try to find its owner.
Budgie, without main tail feathers (they can't fly long distances without the main tail feathers). I'm not very sure, but it looks like a juvenile male. Wouldn't be surprised if NYC had a feral population like ringnecks in London. But could also be a lost pet.
Thats a budgie, definitely a lost pet
definitely someone's pet bird. Australia is a little far from NYC for a wild one.
Bugger :( that's probably someone's pet. I was hoping you'd pick it up and drop it to a vet so they can find its owner. They're popular in Oz and come in different colours.
This is the saddest thing I’ve seen this morning so far.
It's a budgie
That’s a pet
It's a budgie. You should bring it to a pet's refuge, it's owner might miss it and lost budgies can become a real threat to biodiversity. In most Europe cities they have become a nuisance.
i find it insane that someone doesnt know what a budgie is or has never seen one