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/an/, I've owned budgies for a number of years now but one's acting in a way I've never seen before.

We had 2 budgies but one died recently (the other is 3/4) so we got another quite young one to replace him.
Now originally they would peck or ignore each other (especially the new one since he never had mirrors) but today we noticed a change.

For about an hour today he did a sort of "dance" and kept tapping his beak against hers. It reminded me of when the old mate and the older budgie used to "kiss". She kept pecking him and rebuffing him but he kept going with his head bobbing up and down and turning etc.

What is this behaviour?
Pic not mine but related.
>> Anonymous
>>262808
Yes you have it exactly right.
Except the difference is, mine doesn't seem to be that receptive of it. She will preen herself for a long time afterwards. Now I feel very bad for him!

They're adorable, by the way.
>> Anonymous
>>262808
I should ask you something while I have the chance.

Have you tamed your budgies? My female budgie never got used to my hand the same way the one who died did. Because he couldn't fly (I don't honestly know why, we got him when he was a couple of years old), he was reliant on me lifting him from time to time and became used to it.

This new guy is full of character and very inquisitive and I think he'd respond well if I tried but I'm not sure what to do.
>> Anonymous
>>262811

(some new guy) Chances are, your bird couldn't fly because of a condition called "french wing". Basically, the bird cannot produce flight feathers properly.

Also, taming a bird can be much more difficult when another bird is present. When trying to hand tame a new bird, keep it in quarantine so it doesn't see the others. Once it's tame, it can live with other birds. I hope this answers questions...
>> Anonymous
>>262811

I wouldn't feel too bad, if they've stopped completely ignoring each other it's a good sign. :) And Wooster & Freddie were an 'official couple', as it were, for the best part of 10 years.. Wooster still kicked the shit out of poor Fred and ignored him at regular intervals when she felt like it.
>> Anonymous
>>262815
It might have been that, perhaps. Poor thing. He did live a happy life, though. Lots of treats and a mate to keep him happy when he wasn't sitting admiring himself in the large mirror as he sat on the cuttlefish bone.

>>262821
That's very sweet.
With my first two budgies, the female dominated him.
Then when she died, he established pecking order over her at first.
Now that he's dead, she's pecking this new guy just for badness!