Mr Benny Percy

Mr Benny Percy - Our pet budgerigar.

He came to live with us when my father (mysticfrank) moved to Tasmania last November. Benny is a 10 yr old Australian Budgerigar with very striking colours. I have taken a lot of photo's of him over the last year. He has quite a great little personality and hopefully I have captured this in some of his pic's. Peter (my partner) and Benny have developed a wonderful bond as you will see in some of the other photos I will be posting.

Click here to see a slideshow of Benny on WAYN

The Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) nicknamed budgie, the only species in the Australian genus Melopsittacus, is a small parrot belonging to the tribe of the broad-tailed parrots (Platycercini); these are sometimes considered a subfamily (Platycercinae). In the latter case, the Budgerigar is sometimes isolated in a tribe of its own, the Melopsittacini, although it is probably quite closely related to Pezoporus and Neophema.

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