Budgies are Bobbing Heads.

I have five Budgies and they sometimes bobb their head up and down. What does this behavoir mean?

 

Only the males bob there heads when they are wanting to breed and since it is breeding season if there is any females around they will try breeding.

If keeping the birds together always make sure there is more females than males otherwise you will have a fight on your hands.
Budgies are very aggressive birds during the breeding season and will fight till the death for a certain mate or nesting site.

So if you do not wish to breed i suggest seperating the males from the females.

Mike

 

Well I have a breeding pair of Budgies and the female gave birth to two females and one male about a year ago. We had to seperate the female from her young because she was attacking them, so right now theres one cage with the breeding male and the young and one cage with just the breeding female. The other females bobb their heads sometimes.

 

Never breed from any bird that attacks there chicks as this problem passes on to the chicks and they do the same to there chicks.

Females dont usually bob there heads unless they are regurgitating food for there babies.
They also only do it when something is annoying or bothering them as this is a warning to predators to leave them alone.

I had one female that always attacked her chicks when they were between 2-4weeks old she did this with 3 clutches so she was never bred from again.

The males seem to look after them alot better than the females only tim e the males are usually agressive to there young is when they are wanting to mate again and are wanting the chicks to leave the nest.

Mike