Does Your Budgie Miss You When You’re Gone? 7 Signs to Look For
Birb Influ
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Does your budgie actually miss you when you leave the house? 🐦💚
Budgies are highly social birds, and they can notice when familiar companions disappear and return. In this video, we look at 7 signs that your budgie may notice your absence, from contact calling and changes in behaviour to getting excited when you finally come home.
Of course, we cannot know exactly what a budgie is thinking or whether they experience “missing someone” exactly like humans do. But research into budgie contact calls, social relationships and vocal learning gives us some fascinating clues about just how important their social connections can be.
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⏱️ CHAPTERS
0:00 Does Your Budgie Miss You When You’re Gone?
0:08 Sign 1: Your Budgie Calls When You Leave
1:26 Sign 2: Your Budgie Gets Quiet While You’re Gone
2:16 Sign 3: Your Budgie Gets Excited When You Return
3:13 Sign 4: Your Budgie Wants to Be Close to You
4:30 Sign 5: Your Budgie Recognises the Sounds of You Coming Home
5:38 Sign 6: Your Budgie’s Routine Changes Without You
6:47 Sign 7: Your Budgie Keeps Choosing You
8:54 So, Does Your Budgie Really Miss You?
🔬 SOURCES AND FURTHER READING
Vocal plasticity in budgerigars: evidence for social factors in the learning of contact calls
Farabaugh, Linzenbold & Dooling, 1994
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8174348/
The role of contact calls in the social behavior of the budgerigar
Shea et al., 1997
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9071401/
Male vocal imitation produces call convergence during pair bonding in budgerigars
Hile, Plummer & Striedter, 2000
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10877...
These studies do not prove that budgies experience missing a person exactly as humans do. They help us understand budgie social communication, contact calls, vocal learning and how their calls can be influenced by social relationships.
If your budgie does something completely different when you leave or when you come home, tell me about it in the comments. I’d love to hear what your bird does.
And if you enjoyed the video, subscribe to Birb Influ for more simple, research-based videos about budgie behaviour, care and the weird little things these birds do.
#Budgie #Budgies #Parakeet #BudgieCare #BudgieBehaviour #PetBirds
Does Your Budgie Miss You When You’re Gone? 7 Signs to Look For
Birb Influ
92 views
Does your budgie actually miss you when you leave the house? 🐦💚
Budgies are highly social birds, and they can notice when familiar companions disappear and return. In this video, we look at 7 signs that your budgie may notice your absence, from contact calling and changes in behaviour to getting excited when you finally come home.
Of course, we cannot know exactly what a budgie is thinking or whether they experience “missing someone” exactly like humans do. But research into budgie contact calls, social relationships and vocal learning gives us some fascinating clues about just how important their social connections can be.
🐦 SUBSCRIBE TO BIRB INFLU
Join the flock for more budgie care, behaviour and bonding videos:
@birbinflu
📱 BIRB COMPANION — FREE ON ANDROID
My Birb Companion app is now available to download FREE from Google Play.
Keep track of your birds, weights, vet visits, reminders, notes and more:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...
🔗 MORE BIRB INFLU LINKS
My other links, socials and bird-related stuff:
https://beacons.ai/matts.links
⏱️ CHAPTERS
0:00 Does Your Budgie Miss You When You’re Gone?
0:08 Sign 1: Your Budgie Calls When You Leave
1:26 Sign 2: Your Budgie Gets Quiet While You’re Gone
2:16 Sign 3: Your Budgie Gets Excited When You Return
3:13 Sign 4: Your Budgie Wants to Be Close to You
4:30 Sign 5: Your Budgie Recognises the Sounds of You Coming Home
5:38 Sign 6: Your Budgie’s Routine Changes Without You
6:47 Sign 7: Your Budgie Keeps Choosing You
8:54 So, Does Your Budgie Really Miss You?
🔬 SOURCES AND FURTHER READING
Vocal plasticity in budgerigars: evidence for social factors in the learning of contact calls
Farabaugh, Linzenbold & Dooling, 1994
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8174348/
The role of contact calls in the social behavior of the budgerigar
Shea et al., 1997
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9071401/
Male vocal imitation produces call convergence during pair bonding in budgerigars
Hile, Plummer & Striedter, 2000
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10877...
These studies do not prove that budgies experience missing a person exactly as humans do. They help us understand budgie social communication, contact calls, vocal learning and how their calls can be influenced by social relationships.
If your budgie does something completely different when you leave or when you come home, tell me about it in the comments. I’d love to hear what your bird does.
And if you enjoyed the video, subscribe to Birb Influ for more simple, research-based videos about budgie behaviour, care and the weird little things these birds do.
#Budgie #Budgies #Parakeet #BudgieCare #BudgieBehaviour #PetBirds