My elderly mother's best companion

My seventy-eight-year-old mother has been lonely since my father passed. A budgie seemed like a manageable solution. Two years on, she talks to him constantly, he talks back, and she says he gives her a reason to get up every morning. The bird is easy for her to care for, is not boisterous or loud, and fills her quiet house with gentle sound. For elderly people living alone, budgies are a perfect companion animal.