A healthy budgie may also regurgitate as a courtship gesture. These may indicate distress. Beak grinding or standing on one foot with fluffed feathers indicates a relaxed mode. They also produce a mellifluous assortment of chirps, twitters and trills. Tame males may speak dozens or even hundreds of phrases, including word combinations.
Females can talk, but tend to be much less vocal.
Give your budgie a name it will respond to. A non-talking budgie may recognize its name, as well as words used in meaningful context. Intrigued by the minutest details, a budgie will gleefully tug at a stray thread on your sweater, a hangnail or a mole on your skin. When you're on the phone, your budgie may peck the receiver and converse with it animatedly, while intermittently beak-tickling your neck or unoccupied ear. Budgies sometimes hang from eye-glasses or a lock of hair, peering into your eyes as you write.