Tri-State Budgerigar Society

05/26/2026

05/24/2026

Something for our bird loving friends in and around North Carolina to do on Saturday, May 23, 2026!

Next Saturday! Can't wait to see you there at the NC State Fairgrounds in Raleigh. 😬🦜🦜🦜🦜🦜🦜🦜🦜🦜

05/24/2026

Remember this is not just a long weekend, parades and sales for most of us in the USA. Is a time to be remembering and honoring our fallen on this Memorial Day weekend.

05/07/2026

Have you been to a Budgie show? Share your experience about it tonight in our 7 pm Zoom chat. Login details sent upon request.

05/03/2026

Why should you join our club? Well in no particular order, this should answer that question many times over!

1. Because you can't get enough of budgies
2. To meet new people with a common interest
3. You can gather with others that share your obsession
4. Have something to do with your time on Thursday evening
5. Have something to do with your time on Sunday afternoon
6. See parts of the country when you attend shows.
7. You get to ask questions and get answers
8. Long-time members have loads of experience to mentor you
9. Our member newsletters are full of interesting stuff
10. It's only $20 a year to join
11. You will actually learn things not in any books
12. There are great topics for discussion in every chat and meeting
13. Chats on the first Thursday of the month are always by Zoom
14. Our members specialize in many not often seen mutations
15. We can help you on the tricky genetics stuff that confuses you
16. Traveling to budgie shows in more fun with friends
17. You will get advice on how to make a budgie a great pet
18. You will learn how to properly prepare budgies for exhibitions
19. Classifier and judge members can help you with identification
20. We are fun people of every age that will welcome you

Maybe some of you that are already officially members of the Tri-State Budgerigar Society can think of something else to add to the list!

04/16/2026

Our monthly Zoom meeting is at 2:00 pm this Sunday, 04/19/26. The session will open about 1:45 pm to give people time to settle in and perhaps chat a bit prior to the start of the meeting.

Topic for exhibitors: How do you go about deciding which birds to keep or not use?

Topic for pet owners: Should you get one bird or two?

Once the topics and any club business have taken place, any questions, problems, comments or knowledge may be shared by participants on any budgie related things. Meetings generally run about 60-90 minutes.

If you would like to try out the meeting, please respond here or send a message and the meeting link will be provided.

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04/12/2026

Replace the word "equestrian" with "budgerigar" and this can be you! 2026 shows have started so you may need to purchase a few more bins or realize it is time to do some spring cleaning!

PLEASE DO NOT JUST THROW OUT ANY RIBBONS YOU DO NOT WANT! Many clubs like the Tri-State Budgerigar Society purposely do not put dates on our ribbons so that they may be reused at future shows. A ribbon and award order can cost a club several hundred to thousands of dollars when an order must be placed. We order every other year for 4 shows. Each show uses up to 108 ribbons. The ribbons we use cost about $4 to $6 each. That does not include shipping, logo set up, line changes, etc., or other awards. So please, return any of ours you do not want or simply leave them behind on a table after our August show after taking photos if you don't want them. They get added to our inventory of leftover ribbons and our cost is greatly reduced when placing the next order. Many clubs reuse ribbons so inquire with them for any other type of awards you no longer want.

It is critical that people attend shows as any fees for membership, bird entry fees, donations and purchases go to help defray the high cost of putting on a show. In addition to the cost of ribbons, there are 2 to 3 days of hall rental costs, judges' airfare and accommodations, prizes, refreshments and more. Membership fees alone would never cover the cost of putting on a show every year.

With that said, we hope to see you at our show on August 15 & 16, in East Brunswick, NJ.

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04/07/2026

Here is the current list of BAA and ABS budgie shows, as of April 1, 2026, for the east coast region from Florida to Maine and west to Tennessee and Illinois. Stop in at any of them and see what the hobby of exhibition budgerigars is all about!