budgerigar - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • color: Today, we have a beautiful garden, which incorporates an aviary filled with budgerigars of all different colors.

Converse of object

  • breed: Even then, you can only reasonably expect to breed budgerigars equal to the average quality of the stud from which you buy.
  • keep: A wire mesh measuring 1 " x 0.5 " is suitable when keeping Budgerigars.
  • mottle: There is also an article, written much earlier, by Ethel Dobie which also appears on this website, describing mottled budgerigars.
  • buy: Don't expect to go to a top stud and buy budgerigars for pet prices.
  • produce: The example given demonstrates a commercial unit producing budgerigars for the pet market.
  • house: Birds were isolated in metal cages in groups of two in a building which never previously housed budgerigars.

Adjective modifier

  • good: What cannot be taught is that natural eye for a good budgerigar.
  • blue: The white is a blue colored budgerigar with a reduction in the color pigment and works in a similar way to the yellows.
  • normal: Babies produced from this variety can only be a Dominant Pied or a Normal budgerigar.
  • green: I found him in bed with a little green budgerigar sitting on his head!
  • affected: Table 2 - Minor Feather Diseases found in a Survey of 198 affected Budgerigars.
  • wild: The original wild budgerigar known as a Light Green later developed Blues and varying shades of this color.

Modifies a noun

  • breeder: In the case of the color genes of interest to budgerigar breeders, the effects of most single color influencing genes is dramatic.
  • fancy: Many years ago, Canary breeders trod the same path that we in the budgerigar fancy are on today.
  • variety: Can there be a budgerigar variety that displays all those colors?
  • stud: A Plan for Beginners in the Fancy - Part I by Pat Norris How to start to build a successful budgerigar stud.

Noun used with modifier

  • exhibition: In 1980/81, I had the pleasure of painting a new standard for the exhibition budgerigar, which is still in use today.
  • type: Over the past few years fanciers have increasingly reported feather abnormalities in their exhibition type budgerigars.

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