セキセイインコ

noun

budgerigar; budgie; common pet parakeet

Refers to the small Australian parrot Melopsittacus undulatus, widely kept as a pet. In everyday Japanese, セキセイインコ is the usual term.

• うちではセキセイインコを二に羽わ飼かっています。

  We keep two budgerigars at home.

• セキセイインコは人ひとによく懐なつきます。

  Budgies become very attached to people.