Nanamoms that is so sad to hear. It sounds like it might have been something contagious. We have had our male for a long time and lost two females over the yrs. My DS, who loves birds, go to pick the last new "female" but picked an adorable very young budgy that turned out to be a male. He is doing well and the guys get along great. I have heard two females together do not work but two males do. If you get new budgies besure to bleach the cage and wash it off real well and let it dry in the sun. I knew of one family that lost a canary and then got a new one after standard regular cleaning and the next canary died too. I really like budgies. Did yours sit with you and come out of the cage? All but one of our parakeets, first female, were nice.