Bourke Parakeets Enjoy Bathing –These are Youngsters

Bourke Parakeet Youngsters: Cream, Lutino, Rubino, Rosy, Normal & Pink O...

Our current sweethearts ,,, 

Splendid Visit with Scarlet-chested Parakeets

It's been several years since we raised Splendids. This new pair is exciting. We look forward to baby Scarlet-chested Parakeets in our future. The Bourke Parakeets are still our favorites, but a little variety is fun, and these birds are lovely.

Bourke Parakeet Procreation - Sunset & Starfire Mate & Begin a Family

How to start a bird family -- Sunset and Starfire mating and their resulting offspring.

20 Baby Bourke Parakeets on Aug. 27, 2019

Don't miss seeing our adorable beauties.

Splay Legged Bourke Parakeet Treatment

Into every endeavor some rain must fall ... Sunny in the end, however.

Questions?

If you have questions about your own Bourkes, or ours... Please send us an email so we see it the same day. Between this Blog, Facebook, Producing You Tube Videos, and Hand Feeding Baby Birds, we stay very busy and don't check everything as frequently as we otherwise might. But, we do see our daily email at: 

rosie.birds@gmail.com

Peace and Blessings.

Bourkes and Other Birds

When I perused the Spam Comments, some relevant questions weren't answered. People asked if Bourke Parakeets can breed with Linnies, Lovebirds or Splendids. The answer to all is NO!  

Songster & Blossom,
a male Opaline Fallow Rosy and a Lutino hen.

Those in the know tell us that a Bourke Parakeet, genus Neopsephotus bourkii, is only able to reproduce with its own kind and no other variety of bird. The same is true of Budgerigar Parakeets, genus Melopsittacus. 

Our male Splendid Parakeet.

A few varieties of small birds can interbreed with another. Turquoisine Parakeets can interbreed with Splendid Parakeets (also called Scarlet-chested Parakeets). 

Canaries can interbreed with Green Singing finches. There is even a repost on this blog of photos of an offspring from a Cockatiel and a Galah (also called a Rose Breasted Cockatoo). They call it a Galatiel. 

Many Macaws will interbreed if put together, as will Conures or certain varieties of large parrots. However, interbreeding among different species is not desirable. Offspring are often mules (unable to reproduce) and you are watering down a healthy, natural species. 

Bourke's Parakeets already come in some lovely colors, while still remaining Bourkes.  

A young Normal (wild color) Bourke.

A young Lutino Bourke hen. 

A Normal on swing, a blue-edged Cream in front above
the Rosy with a Lutino in back.

Front of Clyde, mate of Bonnie.

Back of Clyde, mate of Bonnie.

Pink Opaline Fallow Rosy Bourkes with red eyes.
These three are all sisters.

PEACE AND BLESSINGS!

About the Comments For This Blog...

I confess that lately my time is mostly spent raising, hand feeding and selling our Bourke Parakeets. After that, a lot of time and concentration goes into producing videos by Rosie Bird on YouTube. The Splendid Bourke Bird Blog gets less attention then it used to. If I missed a comment you made, I apologize. 

For the first time ever, I opened my Spam filter today and was amazed to find over 2,000 comments captured there since 2012. Most came from Anonymous and were ads that were either stupid or disgusting. But, I took the time to scan the last two years and found four or five comments that should not be targeted for Spam.

Comments are appreciated. However, if you have a Bourke related question send it to my email directly, or I may not see it. For whatever reason, Blogger doesn't usually notify me of comments made to my posts any longer. 

Email is:  rosie.birds@gmail.com

Through email you will get my attention ... unless you sign off as Anonymous ... those are ignored.

Baby Bourke's Parakeets, Newly Hatched in 3 Nests

MORE BABIES! Eleven in last clutches and eleven again this time.

Bourke Parakeet Youngsters, August, 2019, Tame and Sweet

OUR LOVELIES! 

Bourke Parakeet Youngsters, All 11 of Them! July, 2019

Our current hand fed baby Bourkes nearly weaned. Love these little critters!

Hand Feeding Tutorial — With Many Young Bourke's Parakeets

Our latest sweethearts!

Bourke Parakeet Youngsters, Summer 2019

Bourke Parakeet 2nd Clutches. Beautiful, Healthy Baby Birds.

We love our Bourke Parakeets! Latest You Tube video of them shows Starfire and Sunset raising three, Blossom and Songster with four and Peaches and Stormy with five. Two of Starfire's are actually two that she's fostering from Peaches... Who knew Starfire could be a good surrogate mother for our more prolific Peaches!

Bourke Parakeet Babies Nearly Weaned, 12 Tame Youngsters

Babies, babies, everywhere! It's Springtime!

Splendid Parakeets Get a Nest Box Next Door to Bourke Parakeets

Our Scarlet-chested Parakeets are Splendid! Smile.

Young Bourke Parakeets Fledged and Learning to Eat

An update on our 12 baby Bourkes!

Baby Bourke Parakeets Being Co-Fed (hand-fed and parent-fed)

Photo shows Stormy watching over one of his babies as I hand feed it.

Bourke Parakeet Parents and Babies — Four Separate Clutches

Four clutches with a total of 12 baby Bourkes! 

Splendid or Scarlet-chested Parakeets, New to the Flock

Our newest flock members ... Ricky and Lucy, a mated pair who parented together in the past.

Bourke Parakeets Newly Hatched, day-by-day from 4 Tame Hens

Following our Bourke hatches. As of today, we have 12 baby Bourkes, although not all are shown in these videos. More videos to come with all 12!

Nest Boxes for Grasskeets Ready for Spring Hatches

Today's Video by Rosie Bird on You Tube. 

Rosy Bourke Parakeet Nest Box Installed, First One This Year

Rubino Bourke with Dark Eyes!

Have a look at the two Rubino photos sent to us from Margie Archibald Hoard. One has dark eyes! 

Dark-eyed Rubino baby in front and red-eyed baby in back.

This is something I didn't think could happen in a Rubino (or a Lutino), but it appears to be the case. The one behind makes it easy to compare one with red eyes to one with dark eyes. Even though some yellow exists on their wings, I'd call both a Rubino if the rose goes all the way down their backs to their tails. If there is yellow on the back anywhere, then they'd be Lutino.  

As I told Margie, I'm still learning things every day, and a dark-eyed Rubino is news to me. I appreciate her sharing the photo and information. 

Same dark-eyed Rubino when a little older, per Margie.

The two babies below are ours. They are siblings from the same clutch and one is a Rubino while the other is a Lutino. It's the same genetic circumstance, just different terms for their difference in color. 

Windy Ridge Rosies babies ... ours. Clearly a Lutino and a Rubino.
These two beauties are out of Stormy and Peaches. They're sisters hatched in 2018. 

Don't delay. If you haven't already purchased a copy of 

"Rosie Bird's Guide to Small Exotic Birds" by Gail A. Lewis 

be sure to do so. It's on Amazon, Barnes and Noble or from other booksellers. 

PEACE AND BLESSINGS,

Gail