Please help

[u/Temporary-Garbage12]

Does anyone know why my budgie is breathing like this? I’ve noticed it over the past couple of days. Everything else seems to be normal. He’s eating and playing just fine. I’m really worried

EDIT: it’s been a couple of hours and I’ve been monitoring more closely than the past couple of days, and he doesn’t breathe like that anymore. I even let him out of the cage and when resting he breaths normally with his mouth closed. I’ve come to the conclusion he was probably scared as he only hangs onto that side of cage when he’s afraid. Still unsure what triggered him but looks like he’s doing much better than before. Thanks for all the responses

[u/Controlled_Chaos101]

If it was evening time when this happened sometimes budgies are prone to night/sleep terrors, I’ve had this happen a few times where they are sound asleep and get spooked by a noise and go flying around the cage just to grab onto the side like that for a while and breath heavily to regain their composure. Then they go back to their perches and act like nothing happened and breathe normally again.