Lone budgie

[GoodOldEmmaNess]

(Apologies for long post)
I have kept budgies for a long time and had decided that I would stop as soon as my two elderly budgies finally died. But a couple of years ago I had them in the garden and an evidently lost young budgie flew to them and sat on their cage.

I took him in and asked around among neighbours. No one claimed him, so he became mine and I named him Daz.

The two elderly budgies died not so very long after - I think the new budgie was a bit of a shock to their established way of life.

Not wanting to keep a lone budgie, I bought a companion budgie for Daz. However, the companion was never as robust as Daz and died recently.

I don't want to buy another companion, as the logical conclusion to that is an infinite budgie loop - always having to buy a new companion each time there is a death.

So now I have an only budgie and I am worried about whether I can do enough to keep things humane for him. He has a huge cage (from the time when I had quite a few finches in addition to the budgies), and during the day I am decanting him into a smaller cage for short periods so that he can come into the room where I work, or the kitchen, or the garden, etc. I am also letting him out more frequently for free flights (not that he is really bothered about that). And I am spending a little bit more time close to him, talking to him, putting my hand slowly closer to him, etc. (I never tried to tame him when he had pals as I thought they were better off with each other.)

I also play budgie sounds from youtube for a little while most days.

Are these things enough? Is there more I should do? Should I try to find another home for him, with companions?

[Imatorturedpoet]

Sorry, I don't know enough about budgies to answer, but bumping this for you and hope someone with more knowledge comes along.

I was thinking of getting a budgie/budgies, but was told if you only have one they are easier to hand tame and more likely to speak, however I'd worry that the budgie was lonely. Also worried that if I can't hand tame it/them, I'd not let them out to fly enough because I wouldn't be able to catch them.

[AnnetteKurtan]

My budgie outlived all his buddies, in the end he made friends with the guinea pig. I wish I was joking. The bloody thing often cleaned the guinea pig and they snuggled up to sleep 😂
Maybe another animal will do the job 😂

i always found a lone budgie got nosey after a while and would visit me at dinner, or shout at the birds outside. He was well entertained

[Strawberrycheesecake7]

I don’t know to much about budgies but my parents have a lone cockatiel. Like your bird he had friends in the past but they’ve died and my parents don’t want to keep getting more. He is an old bird and is extremely attached to my dad especially so rehoming him would be cruel. He gets loads of attention and is pretty much always out of his cage and he seems happy enough. I think if your bird has lots of time with you so he doesn’t get too lonely he should be ok.