Budgies, cockatiels, lovebirds, and parrotlets have been bred in captivity the longest and are popular and readily available in many color mutations ; by some definitions they are domesticated.

As well as being an acclaimed musician and comedian, he wrote The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac, a humorous A-Z book ; two collections of anecdotes, jokes and songs entitled The Unluckiest Man in the World and The 14½ Pound Budgie ; and a comedy / thriller / fantasy, Killer Budgies.

Parakeets, Budgeriers, Keets, or Budgies, breed best in groups, but are usually fine breeding in pairs.

* " Budgies " is a pejorative reference to " The Canaries ", the nickname of Norwich City F. C.

Rio Fanning appeared three times as Budgies gullible criminal Irish pal, Grogan.

Opened in April 2009, Boundless Budgies houses more than 500 free-flying parakeets, which guests are permitted to hand-feed.

:: Fiction: Karyn Hay, Emerald Budgies.

Species of parrots that are kept as companions include large parrots such as Amazons, African Greys, Cockatoos, Eclectus, Hawk-headed Parrots, and Macaws ; mid-sized birds such as Caiques, Conures, Quakers, Pionus, Poicephalus, Rose-ringed parakeets, and Rosellas, and many of the smaller types including Brotogeris, Budgies, Cockatiels, Parakeets, Lovebirds, Parrotlets and Lineolated Parakeets.

Animal Avenue, a children's zoo expansion, includes meerkats, ring-tailed lemurs, black lemurs, Damaraland mole rats, Antilles pink-toed tree spiders, emerald tree boas, green tree pythons, western Bell's hinge-back tortoises, pancake tortoises, horned frogs, White's tree frogs, hourglass tree frogs, long-legged desert ants, emperor scorpions, Madagascar hissing cockroachs, African Cichlids and Budgies.

If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

`` We've been looking for work, but all the ranchers have turned us down ''.

She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.

A detailed scouring of the entire area revealed nothing beyond a ledge of rocks that might have been the rifleman's hiding place.

Yet had he not visited the girl at Saw Buck he would never have been involved in this latest tangle.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.

`` The commercials have just been for money, there hasn't been any real incentive for me to do them, but in Underwater Western Eye I'd have a chance to act.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.

( Would she have been able to had she known that the blanket belonged to a young ballet dancer Nicolas had found his first night in one of Walter's marked bars??

It had been a mistake, but anything would have been a mistake, as it turned out.

`` They wouldn't have sold me in the first place if there'd been food enough to go around ''.

The body may have been two or three weeks' dead.

She might have been someone he had once loved.

Benson said, and Ramey wondered how close their thoughts might have been.

And he would have enjoyed it just as much if he had been a Nazi.

The deeds of countless western bandits and outlaws have been glorified almost to the point of hero-worship, but because Billy Tilghman remained strictly on the side of the law throughout his action-packed career, his achievements and the appalling risks he took while taming the West have remained almost unsung.

Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;

Had Dandy been older or wiser, instinct might have warned him that he would be well advised to flee from the Lalauries' tender care if he valued his life.

The flap-down ears and famous curved tail of the dachshund have deliberately been bred into the dog.

For example fluorescent pigs have been bred in the US in 2000, in Korea in 2002, in Taiwan in 2006, in China in 2008 and Japan in 2009.

Records suggest that this species may have bred on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Horses have been selectively bred since their domestication.

The protagonist Louis Wu thinks this indicates the Kzinti in Known Space have bred intelligence out of their females.

According to the latest Red Wolf Recovery Program First Quarter Report ( October – December 2010 ), the US Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that there are currently 110-130 red wolves in the Red Wolf Recovery Area in North Carolina, however, since not all of the newly bred in the wild red wolves have radio collars, they can only confirm a total of 70 " known " individuals, 26 packs, 11 breeding pairs, and 9 additional individuals not associated with a pack.

Specially bred rats have been kept as pets at least since the late 19th century.

Entirely new breeds or " lines " of brown rats, such as the Wistar rat, have been bred for use in laboratories.

Many thousands of rose hybrids and cultivars have been bred and selected for garden use as flowering plants.

Numerous rarities have also been recorded including Black-browed Albatross and Snow Goose, and a single pair of Snowy Owls bred on Fetlar from 1967 to 1975.

Many whippets course, work and race and they have been bred for these jobs for many years.

If such sources are removed from residential areas, almost the only mosquitoes able to attack people are those that fly in or are blown in from where they have bred.

To satisfy the UN Narcotics Convention, some Cannabis strains have been bred to produce minimal levels of THC, the principal psychoactive constituent responsible for the " high " associated with marijuana.

Most have been bred for their flowers, but a few are of garden interest because of ornamental leaves and some for ornamental bark or stems.

Critically endangered species such as the California Condor have had to be captured and bred in captivity.

Melanistic leopards are the most common form of black panther in captivity and they have been selectively bred for decades in the zoo and exotic pet trades.

Melanistic cougars have never been photographed or shot in the wild and none has ever been bred.

Leopons have been bred in captivity ; a well-documented case occurred at the Koshien Hanshin Park in Nishinomiya, Japan in the late 1950s.

In Australia they have bred into larger specimens, but the species rarely grows larger than about six pounds.

There have been cows that have bred for up to thirty years.

Monocultures used in agriculture are usually single strains that have been bred for high yield and resistant to certain common diseases.

Some selectively bred cultivars have seedless fruit.

" God is my witness ," he explained, " I could have abstained longer than the weal of my country could have permitted, not my long delay bred in the breasts of many a great jealousy of my inability, as if I were a barren stock.