My family, when I was young, all kept caged birds, when we first married we had a budgie. About 15 years ago I watched a programme where Kim Basinger was imploring people not to keep caged birds. At the end of the programme she was in a forest watching flocks of parrots flying free and explained that birds like parrots and budgies love to live in family groups and fly for miles. However, as humans like to have birds in cages the trade for trapping and catching birds continues.
This totally changed my mind about caged birds. Why do we want to put them behind bars for the rest of there lives just to give us a hobby?
I have seen the sad little birds in the Pet Shops and always think of the ones flying free in the Basinger programme.
This is my personal opinion but I hope you might think twice about birds and maybe rehome a dog or cat from the Animal Santuary instead.