Best Budgie Toys for 2020

What would a bird want from a playground?

Ladders, perches, a swing? Metal chain and ring toy dangling from a metal ring hook? Well, this playground features it all. It is designed to give the bird a break when outside the cage, but can also be used in larger cages.

Because it is wooden, it is really substantial and will keep them really occupied.

For a truly tantalising mix of all the different types of bird toy, this 7 pack of bird gadgets from STAJOY means you can collect every possible form of budgie entertainment in one simple set!

The multi-toy extravaganza features 2 hanging bells, a 3 belled tassel, a hanging rattan ball, a swing, a cotton tassel and a spiral ladder! It’s likely you’ve seen versions of these toys elsewhere in this review page, but only STAJOY have combined them all together for one seriously special budgie birthday present.

Their bright colours should quickly attract pet birds, while their varying assortment will ensure budgies never get bored with so many different stimuli to occupy their time with.

We’ll be the first to admit that as toys go, this doesn’t exactly look the most exciting.

However, if you cast your mind back to almost every adventure film ever made, you’ll soon realise that there is actually nothing more thrilling or treacherous than a rickety old rope bridge – especially if there’s a crocodile-infested canyon underneath.

And while thankfully there is no such horrors at the bed of your budgie cage, there is instead the much more real and graver threat of lots and lots of bird droppings, and so in a way, even more jeopardy for any budgie who dares step foot on this bird toy-cum-jungle canyon rope bridge.

Made from sustainable materials, it’s irregular shape encourages budgies to regularly move their feet to stay stable, encouraging exercise and requiring quick thinking to stay on the bridge.

The aim of the toy is to inspire rugged physical play, and so it’s especially fun if you have more than one budgie, but the toy is still just as suitable if you only have one.

Approximately 17-inches long it’s fantastic for small to medium cages and will bring a little Indiana Jones into you and your budgie’s life!

This is a colourful toy for small birds which can keep them occupied and is full of small rattling balls.

It is made from plastic to be easy to clean and allow them to use it, and at 10cm tall it can offer a challenge without being too difficult. Ideal to place on a cage floor.

What on earth is a shaggy kabob?!

Is it the hazey drunken aims of a bachelor on a night out maybe? Or perhaps the name of a 70’s detective series your gran used to record? (Shaggy Kabob: Private Investigator?)

Well, as it turns out, it’s neither of those.

A Shaggy Kabob is in fact a very strange type of budgie toy, and although it has quite an unusual name, it would be fair to say it’s probably the best description going of this quite frankly bizarre looking contraption.

Is it shaggy looking? Yes.

Does it look a bit like a kebab? Sort of.

Hence… Shaggy Kabob.

A colourful and peculiar foraging toy, the kabob is a collection of frayed knots, wooden blocks and oddly shaped pieces which can be hung from the ceiling of your cage and will naturally attract the interest of your budgie.

It draws out your bird’s natural instincts while helping to keep things exciting and interesting within their cage, and despite its unusual aesthetics, is actually quite a pretty addition to most bird homes.

Just don’t try ordering one from Munchies after your night out next week, as you’ll likely go home disappointed.

When we humans get bored, there’s Netflix, video games, sports, exercise, knitting, baking, lion-taming and all sorts of funky activities to help alleviate those dragging moments we sometimes go through in life.

But for our poor budgies, things can be a lot less interesting.

For starters, the only thing of note going on outside their cage is your life.

They have to watch you eating, sleeping, walking around in your pants and if they’re lucky, they might get the occasional row for a bit of added drama. It’s like a never ending episode of Eastenders and they can never change the channel.

But there is a way you can save them from tedium.

Enter the Rosewood Boredom Buster, a stimulating, earth friendly activity toy made from all natural materials that birds might find in the wild.

Designed to cure a bird’s agitation, the toy is a hand woven pineapple shaped pecking contraption and is meant to be foraged and shredded by budgies who just love to tear things apart! As an added bonus, it’s tough outer layer is also filled with a tasty palm and banana leaf filling that birds love to extract, drawing out all of their wildest and most natural behaviours.

Or maybe your budgie quite likes EastEnders.

Remember nests?

Yeah, that’s right, those collections of branches and twigs that birds use to fashion into a kind of home for their young.

Well it turns out birds of all kinds still really enjoy these bundles of branches, and so to bring a little of the old wildlife back into your budgie’s abode, you wouldn’t be going far wrong by picking up one of Rabi’s hanging bird nest toys.

A pretty and quaint little thing, the nest-like structure is constructed with bird safe rattan and decorated with four unique bells for your budgie to ring and peck.

It’s resistant to chewing, and can be used as a perch, a swing or just a form of amusement for disgruntled birds.

Let’s just hope they don’t start laying eggs in it!

Providing pet birds with a fun elevated place to swing, chew and climb, this cotton spiral ladder swing toy offers both a colourful aesthetic for your budgie cage and a nice spot for your bird to perch and play on.

Completely safe to chew, it encourages exercise and stability in birds, helping to develop their balance and coordination with its unusual shape.

It’s funky pattern isn’t just there to please your eye either, as it will actually dazzle and attract bored budgies too, who’ll be only too happy to come and inspect their cage’s hottest new addition.

Easy to install, it’s a classic toy that creates the perfect playground and will unlock the adventurer in any budgie!

Kitting out a bird cage can be a lengthy process, and an expensive one with so many toys, decorations and essentials to stock up on one by one.

But unless you’ve seen the mother of all bird toys and just have to have it, the easy choice to make when looking to keep your budgie occupied is to just splash out on a complete set of goodies.

This seven piece swings and climbing set from LANSONTECH should cure its fair share of budgie boredom, with an included bell swing and six climbing ropes of various materials to be pecked and prodded.

Made from 100% natural wood and dyed with edible pigments, they’re completely safe for your bird to play with how they wish and provide a superb spot for them to rest their feet or exercise away.

All easily clipped to the cage with an active hook, just make sure your cage has enough room for all of these delights!

Calling all sk8r boys and chicks!

If you haven’t already, you can finally forget Tony Hawk, because thanks to this totally rad skateboard toy from Keersi, there’s going to be a new birdman in town… your budgie!

Although it’s unlikely your feathered friend is going to be schooling anyone on the half-pipe anytime soon, this novelty toy is a great bit of fun, and should give you and your bird a humorous bonding experience!

Introduce your budgie to the board and see if you can train them to work out how it moves and unlock their secret intelligence! Or alternatively, you can just let them peck at the spinning wheels and throw it around,

Because even if they never manage to move an inch on their new deck and wheels, it’s a toy worth it for the visual value alone!

But don’t give up too quickly, because we sense an X Games on the horizon! (Google it grandad.)