 Before this goes any farther, I would like to thank all of you who have so unselfishly given me the bird over the years, especially the very nice lady in the grocery store parking lot last week. But this type of bird is the feathered variety. I had a bird when I was a small child, a budgie, as the Brits say, or common garden variety parakeet, the kind Rocky Balboa referred to as flying candy.