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series of standards of perfection. These have been seen as constant improvements in the look of the bird. Almost all breeders learn the modern “look” and see it as an improvement over past “looks”. Since about 1960 when the first (illegal) English imports arrived, we have all bred more and more birds that follow the European look. From 2003 our Australian standards of perfection started to mimic the European ones too. These days, we pretty much follow the European trends relating to all aspects of perfection in the look of the budgerigar. So perhaps it is time to examine what we are


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doing, particularly in relation to the effects on the welfare of our birds. It is perhaps a significant criticism of our predecessors that they seem never to have considered welfare of the birds when they were designing new standards of perfection. I can find no records of welfare


ver the last 77 years, since our first standard of perfection in 1935, budgie breeders have developed an ever-changing


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