Budgerigar

Order Psittaciformes; Family Psittacidae (Parrots); Scientific name: Melopsittacus undulatus; Common name: Budgerigar; Alternative spelling of the common name: Budgerygah – Female at the entrance of the nest excavated into a tree termites nest - Distribution in Australia: arid and semi-arid areas of all mainland states; absent in the wet tropics, east of Great Dividing Range and in the south-western Western Australia.