They also eat fruits like apples or oranges. Another amazing thing parakeets can do is say words. Parakeets can learn to repeat words, sentences, and verses. Parakeets can also learn to whistle. Even though parakeets can learn these things they are not highly gifted in doing them.
Parakeets can also get diseases.
Even though most are healthy all their lives. They can get diseases like anal prolapes, going light, french molt, coccidia and many others. Going light is a disease of weight loss. The parakeet continues to eat normally but continues to lose weight at the same time. The parakeet will lose weight until it dies.