"and Schofield). The tune and the Grainger arrangement for piano and orchestra is a favourite with school orchestras, and other performances of the work include morris dancing. Jimmie Rodgers sang a well-known version (""English Country Garden""), which reached Number 5 in the UK charts in June 1962. The lyrics refer to several species of bird which are not native to England but are found only in the Americas. Anglo-Australian comedian Rolf Harris recorded a parody of the Rodgers version in the 1970s. Comedian Allan Sherman used this melody as the tune for his 1963 song, ""Here's to the Crabgrass"". Country"
"Budgerigar The budgerigar (; ""Melopsittacus undulatus"") is a long-tailed, seed-eating parrot usually nicknamed the budgie, or in American English, the parakeet. Budgies are the only species in the genus ""Melopsittacus"". Naturally, the species is green and yellow with black, scalloped markings on the nape, back, and wings. Budgies are bred in captivity with colouring of blues, whites, yellows, greys, and even with small crests. Juveniles and chicks are monomorphic, while adults are told apart by their cere colouring, and their behaviour. The origin of the budgie's name is unclear. First recorded in 1805, budgerigars are popular pets around the world"
"of food and water. Drought can drive flocks into more wooded habitat or coastal areas. They feed on the seeds of spinifex, grass seeds, and sometimes ripening wheat. Outside of Australia, the only long-term establishment of naturalised feral budgerigars is a large population near St. Petersburg, Florida. Increased competition for nesting sites from European starlings and house sparrows is thought to be a primary cause of the population declining from the 1980s. The more consistent, year-round conditions in Florida significantly reduced their nomadic behaviour. Budgerigars feed primarily on grass seeds. The species also opportunistically depredates growing cereal crops and lawn"
"due to their small size, low cost, and ability to mimic human speech. They are the third most popular pet in the world, after the domesticated dog and cat. Budgies are nomadic flock parakeets that have been bred in captivity since the 19th century. In both captivity and the wild, budgerigars breed opportunistically and in pairs. Found wild throughout the drier parts of Australia, prior to colonisation they had survived harsh inland conditions for five million years. The budgerigar is closely related to lories and the fig parrots. The budgerigar has co-existed with Indigenous Australians for 50–70,000 years. Several possible"
"phrases included, ""I am not a crook"" and ""Nobody puts baby bird in a corner!"". Disco died in 2017 due to an unknown illness. Small bathing suits for men, commonly referred to as togs or ""Speedos"", are informally called ""budgie smugglers"" in Australia. The phrase is humorously based on the appearance of the tight-fitting cloth around the male's genitals looking like a small budgie. The phrase was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2016. Budgerigar The budgerigar (; ""Melopsittacus undulatus"") is a long-tailed, seed-eating parrot usually nicknamed the budgie, or in American English, the parakeet. Budgies are the"
"known as a Suffused Yellow. In the blue series the absence of the yellow pigment turns the body colour to white, although this is usually suffused with blue, often quite heavily. When the suffusion is light, Dilute Skyblues are known as Whites; when it is heavy they are known as Suffused Whites. Dilute Cobalts and Mauves are usually known as Suffused Whites. Budgerigars were first introduced into Europe by the ornithologist and bird artist, John Gould, in 1840, when he imported to England a pair which had been bred by his brother-in-law, Charles Coxon. They grew steadily in popularity. For"
"Whipper (budgerigar) Whipper is a budgerigar from Winton, Southland District, New Zealand. Its unusual appearance, long curly plumage, and vocalisations, which were caused by a genetic mutation made it famous in its home country. After being placed with, and rejected by its mother, its owner took personal care of Whipper. This early separation from its own species may have resulted in its unique vocal sounds, and later reintroduction to other budgerigars caused normal calls to be more evident. Whipper's vet declared him as a mutant. Bird mutations are well documented and can cause health problems. Mutation is common within the"
"However, reports that this could also translate as ""tasty treat"", implying they were eaten by the aboriginals, are likely to be apocryphal. The name likely derived from the species' migratory nature. With seasonal changes that left the plains barren, the budgerigar would move towards residual water that still produced the seeds they sought. By following the birds, the aboriginals could locate water and also other game or food plants – thus, leading to ""good food"". The budgerigar was first described by George Shaw in 1805, and given its current binomial name by John Gould in 1840. The genus name ""Melopsittacus"","
"The two outermost throat spots are situated at the base of each cheek patch. The tail is cobalt (dark-blue); and outside tail feathers display central yellow flashes. Their wings have greenish-black flight feathers and black coverts with yellow fringes along with central yellow flashes, which only become visible in flight or when the wings are outstretched. Bills are olive grey and legs blueish-grey, with zygodactyl toes. In their natural Australian habitat, Budgerigars are noticeably smaller than those in captivity. This particular parrot species has been bred in many other colours and shades in captivity (e.g. blue, grey, grey-green, pieds, violet,"
"Anthracite budgerigar mutation The Anthracite budgerigar mutation is an extremely rare mutation that occurs in the budgerigar. The mutation, similar to the Violet budgerigar mutation, causes a difference in the coloring of budgerigars. Anthracites have black or very dark gray feathers, possibly with some white depending on the budgerigar in particular. The mutation is believed to have started in Germany, and tends to be local to that area. Currently, most owners wishing to obtain an Anthracite need to import these budgerigars from Germany. The description and genetic behaviour of the Anthracite and English Grey are identical, insofar as this can"
"to eat plants, fruits, and vegetables. The colour of the cere (the area containing the nostrils) differs between the sexes, being royal blue in males, pale brown to white (nonbreeding) or brown (breeding) in females, and pink in immatures of both sexes (usually of a more even purplish-pink colour in young males). Some female budgerigars develop brown cere only during breeding time, which later returns to the normal colour. Young females can often be identified by a subtle, chalky whiteness that starts around the nostrils. Males that are either Albino, Lutino, Dark-eyed Clear or Recessive Pied (Danishpied or harlequin) always"
"grass seeds. Breeding in the wild generally takes place between June and September in northern Australia and between August and January in the south, although budgerigars are opportunistic breeders and respond to rains when grass seeds become most abundant. They show signs of affection to their flockmates by preening or feeding one another. Budgerigars feed one another by eating the seeds themselves, and then regurgitating it into their flockmate's mouth. Populations in some areas have increased as a result of increased water availability at farms. Nests are made in holes in trees, fence posts or logs lying on the ground;"
"reported. The life span depends on breed, lineage, and health, being highly influenced by exercise and diet. Budgerigars have been known to cause ""bird fancier's lung"" in sensitive people, a type of hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Apart from a handful of illnesses, diseases of the species are not transmittable to humans. All captive budgerigars are divided into two basic series of colours; namely, white-based (blue, grey and white) and yellow-based (green, grey-green and yellow). Presently, at least 32 primary mutations (including violet) occur, enabling hundreds of possible secondary mutations (stable combined primary mutations) and colour varieties (unstable combined mutations). Male specimens of"
"three generations."" Schumacher, of Magdeburg, Germany, also bred budgerigars with brown wings in 1932, but he disposed of them the year after and it is not known if these were Cinnamons. Towards the end of 1934 the Budgerigar Society recognised the Cinnamon variety for exhibition purposes and published its show standard. The Cinnamon mutation is sex-linked, the locus of its gene being carried on the Z chromosome, and recessive to wild-type. This was determined first by Cyril H Rogers working with Simms and Porter. It was reported in the Budgerigar Bulletin as early as August 1933, and in more detail"
"Bangladesh, Laos, W,N,E Myanmar, NW Thailand, Laos, and C Annam. The first Hodgson's frogmouth in central Laos was recorded in 1994 during the month of April in a dry evergreen forest at 1000 m of altitude. The two subspecies are separated geographically between the Southeast and Southwest of Asia. ""B. H. hodgsoni"" lives more west in countries like Myanmar, India, and Bangladesh while ""B. H. indochinae"" dominates the region more east like Indonesia, Thailand and Laos. Species from the other genus ""Podargus"" are also located in Australia but that is not the case of the ""Batrachostomus"" species. Hodgson's frogmouth survives"
"perfected in males. Females rarely learn to mimic more than a dozen words. Males can easily acquire vocabularies ranging from a few dozen to a hundred words. Pet males, especially those kept alone, are generally the best speakers. Budgerigars will chew on anything they can find to keep their beaks trimmed. Mineral blocks (ideally enriched with iodine), cuttlebone and soft wooden pieces are suitable for this activity. Cuttlebones also supply calcium, essential for the proper forming of eggs and bone solidity. In captivity, budgerigars live an average of five to eight years, but life spans of 15–20 years have been"
"Scutiger boulengeri Scutiger boulengeri (common names: Boulenger's lazy toad, Boulenger's high altitude toad, Himalayan stream frog, and Xizang alpine toad) is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is found in Nepal, India (Sikkim) and western China (Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu, Qinghai, and Tibet). A healthy population has been found at an elevation of in one of the lakes in the Gurudongmar Lake complex in Sikkimese Himalaya. This is one of the highest elevations where amphibians have ever been recorded (""Pleurodema marmoratum"" has been recorded higher at the Andes). ""Scutiger boulengeri"" males measure about and females about in snout–vent"
"Berberis canadensis Berberis canadensis, commonly known as the American barberry or Allegheny barberry, is a member of the family Berberidaceae. ""Berberis canadensis"" is one of only two simple-leaved or 'true' ""Berberis"" indigenous to the United States. The other is ""B. fendleri"" of the southwest U.S. The epithet ""canadensis"" literally means ""Canadian"" but was often used by 18th-Century botanists to refer to any plants growing in northeastern North America. In its native range, ""B. canadensis"" can be difficult to distinguish from the introduced weed species ""B. vulgaris"". Useful distinguishing traits are that the second-year branches are brown, purple, or reddish (rather"
"and the fig parrots (tribe Cyclopsittini). Wild budgerigars average long, weigh , in wingspan, and display a light green body colour (abdomen and rumps), while their mantles (back and wing coverts) display pitch-black mantle markings (blackish in fledgelings and immatures) edged in clear yellow undulations. The forehead and face is yellow in adults. Prior to their adult plumage, young individuals have blackish stripes down to the cere (nose) in young individuals until around 3–4 months of age. They display small, iridescent blue-violet cheek patches and a series of three black spots across each side of their throats (called throat patches)."
"species, caused by ""budgerigar colour genetics"". However, Whipper's unique mutation is long curly feathers, short flightless wings and apparent blindness. It is suspected that the mutation, which is known to budgerigar breeders as the ""feather duster"" mutation, caused unrestricted feather growth, resulting in the budgerigar's dishevelled appearance. Whipper (budgerigar) Whipper is a budgerigar from Winton, Southland District, New Zealand. Its unusual appearance, long curly plumage, and vocalisations, which were caused by a genetic mutation made it famous in its home country. After being placed with, and rejected by its mother, its owner took personal care of Whipper. This early separation"
"Schucke, by Madame Lecallier in France, by G Wilson and T L S Dooley in England, in Holland and in Scotland, but detailed descriptions and the mode of inheritance are unknown. L Raymaekers of Brussels was the first to establish a substantial strain of Clearflight Pied budgerigars, which he called White-flighted or Yellow-flighted budgerigars. These were all descended from a bird with a small clear head-patch which appeared in his aviaries in 1940. Some birds, almost certainly from this strain, had been imported to England well before 1947, as F W Wait of Hemsby, near Yarmouth, advertised Whiteflights and Yellowflights"
"is not believed to approach the criterion of a decline greater than 30% over ten years or three generations to be considered vulnerable. For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern. Hodgson's frogmouth Hodgson's frogmouth (""Batrachostomus hodgsoni"") is a species of bird in the family Podargidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. The common name commemorates the British naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson. This bird is part of the same order as nightjars are. Both birds are nocturnal and they share similar rictal bristles on the"
"are by then almost exclusively fed by their mate (usually at the nest's entrance). Females will not allow a male to enter the nest, unless he forces his way inside. Depending on the clutch size and the beginning of incubation, the age difference between the first and last hatchling can be anywhere from 9 to 16 days. At times, the parents may begin eating their own eggs due to feeling insecure in the nest box. Sometimes, budgerigars (mainly males) are not interested in the opposite sex, and will not reproduce with them; a flock setting—several pairs housed where they can"
"Buddleja Buddleja, or Buddleia (; also historically given as ""Buddlea""), commonly known as the butterfly bush, is a genus comprising over 140 species of flowering plants endemic to Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The generic name bestowed by Linnaeus posthumously honoured the Reverend Adam Buddle (1662–1715), an English botanist and rector, at the suggestion of Dr. William Houstoun. Houstoun sent the first plants to become known to science as buddleja (""B. americana"") to England from the Caribbean about 15 years after Buddle's death. The botanic name has been the source of some confusion. By modern practice of botanical Latin, the"
"from Ancient Greek, means ""melodious parrot"". The species name ""undulatus"" is Latin for ""undulated"" or ""wave-patterned"". Alternative names for the budgerigar include the shell parrot, the warbling grass parakeet, the canary parrot, the zebra parrot, the flight bird, the scallop parrot. Although more applicable to members of the genus ""Agapornis"", the name lovebird has been applied to them from their habit of mutual preening. The budgerigar was thought to be the link between the genera ""Neophema"" and ""Pezoporus"" based on the barred plumage. However, recent phylogenetic studies using DNA sequences place the budgerigar very close to the lories (tribe Loriini)"
"highly prized, especially if the band is clear, sharp and symmetrical, and the feature is now quite common and distinctive due to selective breeding. Such birds comprise the Banded Pied variety. Many isolated appearances of pied or variegated budgerigars were reported in Britain, in continental Europe and in Australia in the late 1920s and early 1930s, but reliable reports of breeding results and detailed descriptions of their appearance during that period are rare. One of the earliest reports of the appearance of a budgerigar which could have been an Australian Pied was of a bird owned by W G Bowden"
"Raggare Raggare (Norwegian bokmål: ""Råner, Norwegian nynorsk: Rånar"") is a subculture found mostly in Sweden and parts of Norway and Finland, and to a lesser extent in Denmark, Germany, and Austria. Raggare are related to the greaser subculture and are known for their love of hot rod cars and 1950s American pop culture. Loosely translated into English, the term is roughly equivalent to the American ""greaser"", English ""rocker"" (probably the closest association, hence the similarity in pronunciation), and Australian ""Bodgie"" and ""Widgie"" culture; all share a common passion for mid-20th-century American cars, rockabilly-based music and related fashion (blue-collar in origin,"
"Bouteloua dactyloides Bouteloua dactyloides, commonly known as buffalograss or buffalo grass, is a North American prairie grass native to Canada, Mexico, and the United States. It is a shortgrass found mainly on the High Plains and is co-dominant with blue grama (""B. gracilis"") over most of the shortgrass prairie. Buffalo grass in North America is not the same species of grass commonly known as ""buffalo"" in Australia. It should not be confused with ""Stenotaphrum secundatum"" varieties such as 'Sir Walter' or 'Palmetto'. Buffalograss is a warm-season perennial shortgrass. It is drought-, heat-, and cold-resistant. Foliage is usually high, though in"
"dogs if they overstay their welcome. The European badger is native to most of Europe and parts of western Asia. In Europe its range includes Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Crete, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine. In Asia it occurs in Afghanistan, China (Xinjiang), Iran, Iraq and Israel. The distributional boundary between the ranges of European and Asian badgers is the Volga River, the European species being situated on"
"the four to six eggs are incubated for 18–21 days, with the young fledging about 30 days after hatching. In the wild, virtually all parrot species require a hollow tree or a hollow log as a nest site. Because of this natural behaviour, budgerigars most easily breed in captivity when provided with a reasonable-sized nest box. The eggs are typically one to two centimetres long and are pearl white without any colouration if fertile. Female budgerigars can lay eggs without a male partner, but these unfertilised eggs will not hatch. Females normally have a whitish tan cere; however, when the"
"the first captive mutant specimens. This would mean that Suffused is the oldest sudden captive-bred colour mutation of the Budgerigar species. Budgerigar colour genetics The science of budgerigar colour genetics deals with the heredity of mutations which cause colour variation in the feathers of the species known scientifically as ""Melopsittacus undulatus"". Birds of this species are commonly known by the terms 'budgerigar', or informally just 'budgie'. The wildtype (natural-coloured or wild occurring) budgerigar's colour is called Lightgreen. The feathers of most parrot species, including budgerigars, contain both a black type of ""melanin"" named ""eumelanin"" along with a basic yellow pigment"
"Southeast Asia. Exotic and Naturalised: China, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Fiji, Hawaii, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mauritius, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tonga, Uganda, US, United Arab Emirates, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Pongamia has a broad distribution across the Indian subcontinent, Asia, Africa, Pacific and America including the Caribbean (area includes India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Burmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Irian Jaya, Java, Kalimantan, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sumatra, Singapore, Philippines, China (Fujian, Guangdong), Taiwan and Japan (Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands)). Within India, pongamia occurs in the following states: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Dadra"
"Arundinaria Arundinaria, commonly known as canes, is a genus of bamboo in the grass family. The question of which bamboo species should be included in ""Arundinaria"" has been debated for many years. Some authors maintain that only the North American species should be included, while others include Asian species otherwise considered members of other genera ""(Bashania, Oligostachyum, Sarocalamus, Fargesia, Sasa,"" etc.). ""Arundinaria"" is the only bamboo native to the United States and North America. The genus is native to the south-central and southeastern United States from Maryland south to Florida and west to the southern Ohio Valley and Texas. Within"