Like Greg I cant give a db noise level for budgies,
they are noisy in flocks. I did make a rather nice
stereo recording of flocks, nest prospecting I
believe, early this year in Central Queensland. If
someone can tell me how I will post a part of the
recordings.
Tony Baylis.
ps. I will be away now for about 5 days.
--- Greg Winterflood <> wrote:
> --- In Dan Dugan
> <> wrote:
> > >I'm interested in finding out the noise levels
> (in dB) of
> budgies. This is to understand if we can keep them
> as pets in the
> townhouse we live in. Any help will be appreciated.
> > Does anybody have any idea?
> > -Dan Dugan
>
>
> Sorry I can't give a dB level for the noise of a
> single budgerigar.=20
> I do know it varies throughout the day. My parents
> have kept one -
> the one that followed the previous dead one - for
> years. They
> chatter during the day and imitate idiotic phrases
> such as 'pretty
> boy'. Some have been trained to repeat their home
> address or phone
> number so that should they escape they can tell
> someone where to
> return them.
>
> As far as I am concerned they should not be kept
> alone in cages =96
> they sicken and die.
>
> The sound level of thousands flying in a symbiotic
> flock is
> something to hear. The whole flock can change
> direction at a speed
> which is apparently faster than the speed of travel
> from a brain
> neuron down a single axon to the birds tail. Have
> never come across
> an explanation for that.
>
> I first came to the Northern Territory in 1967.
> During the years
> 1956 to 1966 a mere 10 inches of rain had fallen.
> The drought broke
> in `67 and I witnessed flocks larger than a football
> field. They
> blocked out the sun as if a cloud had passed under
> it. I've seen
> that event only once since. The huge flocks break
> into separate
> streams which then rejoin after doing some aerobatic
> flying practice.
>
> Recently, in a twelve month period, 63 inches of
> rain fell in
> Central Australia. I expected to again see an
> irruption of
> budgerigars. Not to be. There was an irruption of
> feral cats
> instead! I am assuming the cats got to the baby
> birds first.=20
>
> Incidentally, those feral cats have the same DNA as
> the present day
> wharf cats of Rotterdam. The Dutch, in the 1600s,
> had the habit of
> running their large sea going vessels onto the rocky
> coast of
> Western Australia =96 the Batavia being the most
> notable. That event,
> for its time, was the equivalent of the sinking of
> the Titanic.
>
> The ships cats got ashore and gained a foothold in
> New Holland =96 as
> Australia was then called. The Dutch cats rule the
> north west of
> Australia and have been blamed for wiping out much
> of the native
> fauna.
>
> As far as budgies go the red river gums in the dry
> river beds are
> the best source of budgie noise in the breeding
> season. The nest in
> hollows in the trees where large banches have broken
> off. The sound
> is enough to drown out normal human conversation at
> a barbecue!
>
> I find there is nothing sadder than a single budgie
> kept in a cage
> and being called "Chirpie" or "Blue". In the wild
> they are green and
> yellow; but caged ones are often blue.=20
>
> As I mentioned in my previous post I have just moved
> into a new
> house and even though I know where the Marantz is
> among the mess, I
> haven't had a chance to get it outside.
>
> I can hear some budgies in aviaries nearby so I'll
> try to get some
> recorded and post a file on my web site; but I'll
> need a few days to
> get that done.
>
> Gotta go ... I have to read the instructions for the
> new
> refrigerator and washing machine. Haven't got
> instuctions for the
> swimming pool so it will just have to remain murky
> for a week or
> so. The chlorine level can't be too though as the
> White Plumed
> Honeyeaters are drinking it.=20
>
> Anybody got a good design for a bird bath?
>
> Greg
>
>
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