you can teach and train parakeets to do many things like whistle,,say words, play games read up on yahoo.com all about ( training parakeets ) this might give you some help on training your bird....good luck
They all act like birds to me.
Today my budgie regurgitated seeds for me (I feel pretty honored), and he rubbed his beak on my wrist in affection. He will also chirp on command now. How about yours, what things does your budgie do? They all have so much personality!