I’m not sure if this is normal behaviour but my budgie spends a lot of time licking the mirrors in his cage! He “dabs” at them very quickly with his tongue, I have to take them out and clean them about every two days because they get a yellowy build-up on them, which I [...]

Today i got the mirror mate recordable bird training mirror from petsmart
This is the mirror that teaches a bird how to talk
How do I work it?
And how comes when I move my hand in front of the mirror it doesnt playback my recording
Its turned on and everything

I made a list of things that i need for a budgie, have i missed anything and is the stuff i found ok ?
http://www.wilkinsonplus.com/invt/012203…
http://www.wilkinsonplus.com/invt/005624…
http://www.wilkinsonplus.com/invt/012198…
http://www.wilkinsonplus.com/invt/016442…
Food
cuttlefish bone
bird bell treat
mirror
wooden ladder
Have i missed anything? Is everything there ok? any toy suggestions i can get in the
the links dont want to work :S one of the links was to [...]

I have had a male budgie for about 4 years now. He is semi-tame, but doesn’t come out of the cage on his own. He has always been attracted to a toy in his cage that has many smaller bells on it. He often looks like he is trying to get oxygen from the bell [...]

Ive got a 10 month old budgie and I got him on late December.All of a sudden he looks very unhappy almost as if I’ve did something wrong. He has got plenty of food and water + toys!! And I pay a lot of attention to him – Well not when I’m at school half [...]