Monday, January 13, 2020
Night Lights for Pet Birds, Especially Bourke Parakeets
Night Frights can injure pet birds. This is what we do to help protect ours.
Sunday, January 12, 2020
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Mystery Bourke Parakeet, Part 3
Our Mystery Bird is weaned and ready to take off to her new home. She was DNA'd as a hen.
Our Mystery Bird is weaned and ready to take off to her new home. She was DNA'd as a hen.
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| Our "Mystery Bird" is a Pastel Cream fallow Bourke Parakeet. |
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| A DNA from Health Gene in Canada says she is female. |
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| All her colors are soft and muted: Pink, yellow, blue and gray. |
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| She won't darken as much as a male would, but her colors will become more pronounced as she matures. |
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| Bird in front is Sunset, the father of the Pastel Cream in the back. He is also a fallow Bourke. |
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| Because he is male, Sunset's colors are very bright. Pastel Cream fallow Bourke in center with her sister, a Rubino Bourke in back. |
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| Pastel Cream Fallow Bourke in front of her sister, a Rubino Bourke from an earlier clutch. Their mother is a Lutino Bourke named Starfire. |
Our Mystery Bird is weaned and ready to take off to her new home. She was DNA'd as a hen.
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Mystery Bourke Parakeet -- Part Two
He or she looks more yellow here than actually is. The striking blues don't show up in the video as well as they should. These colors will darken and change after a first molt ... so, our little one remains a mystery yet to come...
Saturday, November 2, 2019
Mystery Bourke Parakeet & Sibling -- Part One
This is only Part One ... Part Two coming soon. Then, a final Part Three later, after a molt. He is a sweet bird and pretty amazing!
Friday, October 25, 2019
3 Lutino Bourke Parakeet Comparisons & Giving Rice Cereal Treats
Photo is of Rosebud, one of three Lutino's in this video. There are many other colors in it too. All are youngsters hatched this year and for sale.
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
A SPLENDID HEN SINGING! (Also called a Scarlet-chested Parakeet)
OUR SPLENDID PARAKEET MATED PAIR. These two parented one baby before coming to live with us. However, Splendids do not go right back to the nest like Bourke Parakeets do. I doubt we will see any babies from them until next year, possibly in the Spring. Meanwhile, they are very enjoyable members of our household.
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Monday, September 23, 2019
Saturday, September 21, 2019
Bourke Parakeet Youngsters: Cream, Lutino, Rubino, Rosy, Normal & Pink O...
Our current sweethearts ,,,
Sunday, September 15, 2019
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.
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Bourke Parakeet Procreation - Sunset & Starfire Mate & Begin a Family
How to start a bird family -- Sunset and Starfire mating and their resulting offspring.
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Splay Legged Bourke Parakeet Treatment
Into every endeavor some rain must fall ... Sunny in the end, however.
Thursday, August 22, 2019
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.
Friday, August 16, 2019
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!
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| A young Normal (wild color) Bourke. |
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| A young Lutino Bourke hen. |
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| A Normal on swing, a blue-edged Cream in front above the Rosy with a Lutino in back. |
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| Front of Clyde, mate of Bonnie. |
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| Back of Clyde, mate of Bonnie. |
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| 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.
Friday, August 9, 2019
Baby Bourke's Parakeets, Newly Hatched in 3 Nests
MORE BABIES! Eleven in last clutches and eleven again this time.
Monday, August 5, 2019
Saturday, July 13, 2019
Bourke Parakeet Youngsters, All 11 of Them! July, 2019
Our current hand fed baby Bourkes nearly weaned. Love these little critters!
Friday, July 5, 2019
Friday, June 28, 2019
Wednesday, June 19, 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!
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Bourke Parakeet Babies Nearly Weaned, 12 Tame Youngsters
Babies, babies, everywhere! It's Springtime!
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