Walk into any pet store and you will probably find a parakeet for sale. The nickname for this small, long-tailed bird is blue budgie. The formal name is the budgerigar. In the wilds of Australia, their coloring is predominately green and yellow. Their domestic cousins have been breed to reflect a rainbow of colors. This little guy is a male, indicated by the blue cere or area around his nostrils. He was very talkative when we met him at the aviary in the Safari Village section of Wildlife Safari in Winston, Oregon.