Budgies in the News

• Uruguayan government approves parakeet reduction to reduce fruit grower's losses  FreshPlaza
• Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Budgie on death, divorce, and his startlingly candid autobiography: ‘It’s truth, it’s real, and it’s neither good nor bad. It just is.’  Lyndsanity
• In Conversation with Budgie  Rough Trade Blog
• Wayland-Only Budgie 10.10 Desktop Preview Released  Phoronix
• Parakeets don't rush into new friendships - they move cautiously  Earth.com
• Requiem for the Carolina parakeet  Knox TN Today
• Parakeets teach a lesson in friendship  University of Cincinnati
• Linux Budgie Desktop: A Perfect Blend of Aesthetics and Power  The New Stack
• “These parrot apartment blocks can be the size of a small car” – and they’re causing chaos in a city near you  BBC Wildlife Magazine
• Hosting NVIDIA speech NIM models on Amazon SageMaker AI: Parakeet ASR  Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Understanding Parakeet Songs Could Help Decode Speech Disorders  NYU Langone Health
• We Now Know the Real Range of the Extinct Carolina Parakeet  National Audubon Society
• Ubuntu Budgie vs. Pop!_OS: I've used both Linux distros - here's how to choose  ZDNET
• Exclusive | Mei Mei the parakeet finally captured after 10 weeks on the run in Central Park: ‘It’s a miracle’  New York Post
• Parakeet Health Partners with Aegis and Schweiger Dermatology to Scale Voice Agents in Senior and Specialty Care  HIT Consultant
• We Went For a Walk in the Polar Vortex – and Rescued a Parakeet on the UWS  West Side Rag
• Investigation into alleged parakeet theft results in felony charges for accusers  Chronicle Telegram
• Ubuntu Budgie 25.04: One of the Best Desktops on the Market  The New Stack
• Meet the escaped parakeet hanging with wild sparrows in Central Park — whose life is in danger as winter approaches  New York Post
• Elyria parakeet caper results in felony charges against 2 over alleged July break-in  Chronicle Telegram
• Meet Bebe, a white-winged parakeet, gliding through his fifth RAGBRAI  The Des Moines Register
• Parakeets teach a lesson in friendship  Popular Science
• Talking parakeet helps Sisters of Saint Francis enjoy retirement  6abc Philadelphia
• Can a parakeet ride a bicycle? No, but he can ride RAGBRAI  The Des Moines Register
• New Oklahoma State Fair parakeet experience allows for up-close feedings  News 9
• NVIDIA Speech AI Models Deliver Industry-Leading Accuracy and Performance | NVIDIA Technical Blog  NVIDIA Developer
• Parakeet Cafe Working on New Sorrento Valley Site  WhatNow
• Budgie Turns Cat Into Personal ‘Birdhouse’ and It’s Even Cuter Than It Sounds  ParadePets
• Stray parakeet brings joy to Rockford-area assisted living facility  MyStateline
• Precious Budgie ‘Singing Himself to Sleep’ Will Instantly Make Anyone’s Day  ParadePets
• Budgie brains have a map of vocal sounds just like humans  New Scientist
• Parakeet brain reveals secrets of human-like speech patterns  News-Medical
• Budgie 10.10 Soars: Wayland-Only Desktop Revolutionizes Linux User Experience  WebProNews
• Finding Blue: Heartbroken Tarrytown family offers reward for missing parakeet  News 12 - Westchester
• Wayland-Only Budgie 10.10 Desktop Environment Released as Developer Preview  9to5Linux
• Carolina Parakeet Naming Contest | Spartanburgers  MLB.com
• The Last Member of This Bird Species Died in Captivity on This Day in 1918  Smithsonian Magazine
• Annoyed Parakeet Shows American Bully Who’s Boss in Funny Video  Yahoo
• Parakeet Pete’s Balloon Ride flies away from Branson Landing  Branson Tri-Lakes News
• ‘Boogie-Loving’ Baby Budgie’s Funny Dance Is Pure Sunshine  Yahoo
• Parakeet Cafe & Juicery: Strategic Consolidation  Coronado Times Newspaper
• The Rodrigues parakeet’s last day: what one extinct bird tells us about the role of museums  The Conversation
• Budgie Steps up To Take Care of His 5 Baby Birds After Mom Decides She Needs a Break  Yahoo
• Family’s Escaped Parakeet Found More Than a Hundred Miles Away from Home: ‘That’s Unheard of!’  Good News Network
• Monday Bulletin: Central Park Bridle Path Becomes a Parking Lot; Is Mamdani Playing it Both Ways in Carriage-Horse Debate?; Central Park Birders Save a Parakeet in the Nick of Time  West Side Rag
• Meet Gus, a pet parakeet who drank and swore and charmed  newscentermaine.com
• Lancaster County couple tries to track down owner of parakeet found perched outside office window  WGAL
• Talking budgie of Assisi House becomes YouTube sensation  Delco Times
• Parakeet Dances on Cat’s Head While She Tries to Nap and the Internet Can’t Stop Laughing  PetHelpful
• Dakin Humane Society waving parakeet, cockatiel adoption fees  Western Mass News
• How accurate is Apple’s new transcription AI? We tested it against Whisper and Parakeet  9to5Mac
• Albuquerque Fire Rescue helps reunite parakeet with owners  KRQE
• Cleveland domestic violence advocate Laura Cowan warns of pet search-and-rescue scam  WKYC
• Cute Green-Cheeked Parakeet Dancing to Taylor Swift Is Also in Her Show Girl Era  PetHelpful
• Roommates' Kindhearted Actions After Finding Stray Parakeet Tug at the Heartstrings  Yahoo
• MacWhisper now supports Nvidia’s impossibly fast Parakeet transcription model  9to5Mac
• A Buffalo business is searching for its missing parakeet  WGRZ
• Monk parakeet nest causes Amityville power outage  Newsday
• The Absence by Budgie – Book Review  Louder Than War
• Tiny Rescue Parakeet Gets a New Lease on Life After Being Rescued From a Walmart Parking Lot  PetHelpful
• Indonesia’s Bali Welcomes the Return of the Endangered Red-breasted Parakeet, Marking a Historic Step in the Island’s Ecological Restoration Efforts  Travel And Tour World
• Wild ringneck parakeet stops tennis match to hang out with players  Bakersfield.com
• What to know about monk parakeets, Houston’s invasive flying neighbors  Houston Chronicle
• Rabbit and Parakeet Siblings Fighting Like a Couple of Human Kids Is Most On-Point Family Dynamic  PetHelpful
• Budgie smuggler: Man caught hiding parakeets in underwear at US-Mexico border  NZ Herald
• Elizabeth RICHMOND Obituary (2025) - Wellington Central, Wellington - The Post  Legacy | Obituary
• Nvidia launches fully open source transcription AI model Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-V2 on Hugging Face  VentureBeat
• Genome sequence of an Acinetobacter pittii strain isolated from a monk parakeet with pneumonia  ASM Journals
• Cat and Parakeet’s Special Bond Defies Logic and Exudes Sweetness  ParadePets
• Carolina Parakeet Naming Contest  MLB.com
• Flock of Wild Parakeets Swarms a Car in the Australian Outback  A-Z Animals
• SIGHTING: Parakeet  West Seattle Blog...
• The epic story of Budgie, the cult heroes who inspired Metallica, Iron Maiden and Soundgarden  Louder
• Farewell to ‘Budgie’: A British Volunteer Fighter Laid to Rest in Kyiv  Kyiv Post
• Blue-crowned Parakeet added to Portuguese list  BirdGuides
• Inside Nvidia’s Granary: One Million Hours of Speech AI Data  AI Magazine
• A Biologist Tells The Story Of America’s Only Two Native Parakeets — One Lost To The World Forever In 1918 And Another That Thrives In South Texas  Forbes
• Hundreds of budgies helped in Rugby charity's first year  BBC
• Why are there so many parakeets in Surrey? Where did they come from?  BBC
• Talking parakeet helps Sisters of Saint Francis enjoy retirement  6abc Philadelphia
• Siouxsie and the Banshees Drummer Budgie to Release New Memoir  Pitchfork
• Salomon’s X-ALP SUEDE “Black/Parakeet” Balances Bold Style and Mountain DNA  stupidDOPE
• Giant Cockatoo and Tiny Parakeet Sweetly Share Corn Snack and It’s Too Cute  PetHelpful
• Kedis Mewali to Bali: The Homecoming of the Red-breasted Parakeet Revives Hope for Balis Natural Restoration  Tribune India
• Siouxsie And the Banshees Drummer Budgie Releases New Tell-All Book -  XS ROCK
• Vancouver vegetarian restaurant mourns loss of popular plant-based meat product  Daily Hive Vancouver
• How is the Golden Parakeet: endangered in the Amazon and coveted in the black market  Noticias Ambientales
• Banshees & Creatures Drummer Budgie Announces Memoir  The Quietus
• Salomon’s X-ALP SUEDE “Black/Parakeet” Delivers Summer Trail Style With Urban Edge  hypebeast.com
• Man Finds Grass Growing Out of His Carpet Thanks to His ‘Farmer’ Budgie Bird  PetHelpful
• NVIDIA’s AI Transcription Tool Produces 60 Minutes of Text in 1 Second  eWeek
• 'Cher' the parakeet reunited with owner after showing up at Littlestown hardware store  local21news.com
• My wild life with Siouxsie Sioux  The Times
• Restaurant review: The Parakeet, Kentish Town  The London Economic
• NVIDIA Open Sources Parakeet TDT 0.6B: Achieving a New Standard for Automatic Speech Recognition ASR and Transcribes an Hour of Audio in One Second  MarkTechPost
• Giant Cockatoo and Tiny Parakeet Sweetly Share Corn Snack and It's Too Cute  AOL.com
• Monk parakeets find prime real estate in downtown Austin: Have you seen these green birds?  LoneStarLive.com
• Fun Facts About the Personable Parakeet  A-Z Animals
• I tried out these 5 Linux desktop environments that aren't GNOME or KDE, and they're surprisingly decent  XDA
• Inside Parliament, a green feathered visitor falls ill — a rescue op follows  The Indian Express